Margaret Ball

3 Quotations from Margaret Ball

Denebian n. 2 1992 A. McCaffrey & M. Ball PartnerShip 182 A moment later, two aides exchanged a flurry of rapid, low-voiced but mainly cheerful comments over Caleb's bed. Nancia gathered that the news was good; his (three-syllable Greek root) was up, his (four-syllable Latin derivation) was down, they were putting him on a regular dosage of (two-word Denebian form), and as soon as he was conscious they were to start him on a physical therapy routine.
intergalactically adv. 1997 A. McCaffrey & M. Ball Acorna (1998) 240 There hadn’t been time to procure the kind of recording equipment an intergalactically known vid-artist would expect to use.
space navigator n. 1997 A. McCaffrey & M. Ball Acorna (2001) 380 That, she considered, was the price she paid for the money that had put her through nav training…. She couldn’t actually work as a space navigator; that would be beneath her family’s status.