Great idea from another post. The top 100 most used words or phrases from WoT. And BTW, I'm not bashing Robert Jordan - every writer is guilty of over using certain words or phrases but few have been prolific enough to be noticed. After 11 books, a couple of million words, yeah, we start to notice.

 

Here's my contributions:

 

"Fists on hips"

sensed "through the bond"

"smoothed her skirts"

mirrored stand lamps

sea folk porcelain

(and it would make a good drinking game as well as fridge magnets)

I noticed the word reluctant in ToM:

He was reluctant to...

He reluctantly did...

He showed reluctance to...

Sometimes I thought everything was done reluctantly.

'Serenity'. An uncountable number of times.

"tugged her braid"

"sighed"

"handsome woman"

 

Those three do come to mind.

You would think there would be bald patches on her head by now.

twitch [one's] shawl, sniff, spank, paddle [one's] bottom, loom

Folded her arms beneath her breasts.

 

All I read when I was a teenager was "BREASTS!"

sniff

tug

plump

rounded

more-than-pretty

(and it would make a good drinking game as well as fridge magnets)

 

just "tugged her braid," would get me drunk off my rear If I'm shooting dirty Shirley temples.

'Serenity'. An uncountable number of times.

 

Good one, even if you add in "Aes Sedai" before "Serenity." You are talking about a bender that would make survivors of the USS Indianapolis wish for the ocean.

"Her chin rose as she gave (insert name of any man) an icy stare" or something to that effect.

 

I can't count how many times that phrase has been used in relation to Elayne.

Edited March 3, 201114 yr by Sleeper

"hawkers crying their wares"

"all stony planes and angles"

"everything seemed to happen at once"

"a grin that nearly split his face in two"

Good stout Two Rivers Woolens

Stout shoes

BS really loves the word "tempest"

 

But then, "tempest" is a flippin' sweet word.

I was thinking I got to this thread too late, but then I realized no one yet has said:

 

box his ears

ageless Aes Sedai face/ageless face

divided skirts

 

Does "burn me" count?

"He knuckled his mustache."

"Herons."

"Oh Light."(I've found myself saying this a few times. )

 

Must say this is a fun thread.

"Slashed with her house colors"

"Fell into [sword stance]"

"lacquered"

"wool headed" and "glided" spring into mind for me.

'Veiled' and 'Veil'. As in;

 

"There was a large number of Taraboners in the army, noticable by their distinctive chainmail veils".

"Sensing danger, the Aiel veiled themselves".

 

And wasn't Tuon 'under the veil' when she arrived in Randland?

Empty the content of his/her stomach

or

Sick up

 

 

Blood and ashes

Blood and bloody ashes

burn him

by the light

"gritted his/her teeth".

BS likes it especially. 36 instances in tGS alone.

flaming

everything must be on fire with the amount of times they are called flaming :P

 

Blasted

lummox

mule

Silverpike

Woolhead

Dark One's own luck

The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills

Edited March 4, 201114 yr by rand4747

"in truth"

"shaved and powdered"