There were drawbacks to being as approachable as the lords of this manor had always been; the short-lived humans tended to come to them with any problem that had them stymied for more than a few moments, assuming that long experience granted unfath-omable wisdom.

The short-lived humans might have toppled a thousand kingdoms and built a thousand more in the few centuries that a single dwarven king would rule his people in peace.

Even for you short-lived humans that's not such a vast span.

Berenel said, recalling something of the sort being said a month or two ago, and how he had complained at the time that it was hardly worth putting these short-lived humans into important positions.

The short-lived humans back on Terra, still convinced that the long-lived families possessed a "secret," set.

She could not have been more than seventeen and that was young, Tanis thought, even by the standards of short-lived humans.

They are such headlong fools, these short-lived humans, burning their candles as fast as they might, flinging themselves into a future they imagine and so trust will be.

Time dilation plays strange games with short-lived humans.

No matter what the humans were led to believe, elves were not immortal-though to short-lived humans, they probably seemed that way.

Maybe because of the third life, we pequeninos don't have the same fear of death that you short-lived humans do.