Assassin's Quest (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 3)

many of

witch, one

If a minstrel must embroider the truth to help us recall it fully, then let her, and let no one say she has lied. Truth is often much larger than facts.

There is no more slippery task than to refrain from thinking of something.

peremptorily

bellicose

He pleasures his body with drugs and deadens his soul with his savage amusements. Aye, and spreads the disease to those around him, until they take no satisfaction in a contest of skill

wherewithal

They regarded our passage not at all, and by afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree.