Just because one describes our one-time master as a godly man does not necessarily mean one thinks he should be primate once again.
Throughout its history, Vietnam's key foreign relationship has been with its largest neighbour and one-time imperial master, China.
Eventually Mikael fought, captured, then executed his one-time master in 1759.
His one-time master had not changed much during the intervening years.
But Marcus' one-time master was not Roman.
The thought of his one-time master facing down Bull Morgan and a squad of Station Security helped soothe the tremors ripping through his insides.
His one-time master had a taste for expensive liquor.
Marcus, torn between the desire to stand his ground and the hope that his one-time master understood and would reasonable about the arrangements for the rest of the money, hesitated.
This sequel to "The Physiognomy continues the story of Cley, who battles his one-time despotic master in a Kafkaesque landscape of mental constructs.
The Stadtholder is heading straight for the trap which he had set up for me, because the cullion who sits there did sell his one-time master to me.