Steyr

/ ˈʃtaiər /

noun

Carrying his Steyr Daimler rifle, Ali creeps through the dark corridors of an abandoned house.

The principal industries are the iron and metal manufactures, chiefly centred at Steyr.

On one side were the fragments of a map in water-colour; on the other, written in German script, he read "Siurd von Steyr."

In the same second the man's name came back to him as he had deciphered it written in pencil on the maps—Siurd von Steyr!

Von Steyr's eyes grew smaller and paler, and an ugly flush mounted to his scarred cheek-bone.

True, he had interfered with Von Steyr's hangman's work, but that was nothing but a reprieve at best.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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