Corin
Also known as Prince Corin, Corin Thunder-Fist
The younger twin prince of Archenland, raised at Anvard after Cor’s disappearance. High-spirited and famously skilled with his fists, he quickly befriends Shasta.
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In the chronicles
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The Horse and His Boy16 cited passages⌄
- Chapter IV · paragraph 35
"Oh Corin, Corin, how could you? And thou and I such close friends ever since thy mother died. And what should I have sai…
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…wherever that is. And these must be the Narnians. I wonder where the real Corin is?" But these thoughts did not help him to say anything out loud.
Open passage → - Chapter V · paragraph 46
…r back to her father. As for himself, "I simply daren't tell them I'm not Prince Corin now," thought Shasta. "I've heard all their plans. If they knew I wasn't one of themselves, they'd never let me…
Open passage → - Chapter V · paragraph 53
…alone his thoughts took a different turn. He only hoped now that the real Prince Corin would not turn up until it was too late and that he would be taken away to Narnia by ship. I am afraid he did n…
Open passage → - Chapter VI · paragraph 1
…eet, and there was a rubbish heap against the outside of the wall just as Corin had told him. Before jumping down he took a rapid glance round him to get his bearings. Apparently he had now c…
Open passage → - Chapter VI · paragraph 27
…etty slow. He thought a good deal about the Narnians and especially about Corin. He wondered what had happened when they discovered that the boy who had been lying on the sofa and hearing all…
Open passage → - Chapter XI · paragraph 6
"Corin! My son! And on foot, and in rags! What----"
Open passage → - Chapter XI · paragraph 7
"No," panted Shasta, shaking his head. "Not Prince Corin. I--I--know I'm like him... saw his Highness in Tashbaan ... sent his greetings."
Open passage → - Chapter XII · paragraph 42
…r side. ("The Queen Lucy," whispered Duffle.) But the one on the pony was Corin. After that came the main body of the army: men on ordinary horses, men on Talking Horses (who didn't mind bein…
Open passage → - Chapter XII · paragraph 44
…e dismounting and haversacks being opened and conversation beginning when Corin came running up to Shasta and seized both his hands and cried,
Open passage → - Chapter XIII · paragraph 1
…once more on the march, riding westward with the mountains on their left. Corin and Shasta rode right at the rear with the Giants immediately in front of them. Lucy and Edmund and Peridan wer…
Open passage → - Chapter XIII · paragraph 2
Shasta told Corin most of his adventures and explained that he had learned all his riding from a horse and didn't really know how…
Open passage → - Chapter XIV · paragraph 52
…ly King Lune is my father," said Shasta. "I might really have guessed it. Corin being so like me. We were twins, you see. Oh, and my name isn't Shasta, it's Cor."
Open passage → - Chapter XIV · paragraph 64
… horrible things are going to happen to me. But you want the story. Well, Corin and I were twins. And about a week after we were both born, apparently, they took us to a wise old Centaur in N…
Open passage → - Chapter XV · paragraph 11
…e and the Lord Darrin faced him at the other. Dar and Peridan and Cor and Corin were on the same side as the King.
Open passage → - Chapter XV · paragraph 22
Nearly all the lords sprang to their feet, and Corin shouted:
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The Silver Chair1 cited passage⌄
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