He doesn’t want to face Englishmen,’ the Lord of Douglas said, and he knew he was right. Ever since the Scottish knights
Have you ever fought in a battle? I know you burned down my barns, but that isn’t a battle, you stinking piece of rat-gristle. A battle is the shield wall. It’s smelling your enemy’s breath while he t...
Guinevere grimaced. ‘Do you know how cloying love can be, Derfel? I don’t want to be worshipped. I don’t want every whim granted. I want to feel there’s something biting back.
For Arthur, at last, had come.
Fighting fair! Whoever heard of anything so daft? Fight fair and you lose.
Empurrei a bolsa para ele e me tornei instantaneamente pobre.Ragnar a empurrou de volta sem sequer pensar, tornando-me rico de novo
Dreams are like songs. Their task is not to offer an exact image of the world, but a suggestion of it.
Does that girl work here?' Robbie asked, gesturing at the screen behind which Mary had disappeared. 'All her life,' Sir Giles said. 'You remember Mary, Thomas?' 'I tried to drown her when we were both...
Did you become a Christian in your nunnery?' I asked her.'Of course not.' she said scornfully.'They didn't mind?''I gave them silver.''Then they didn't mind.' I said.'I don't think any Dane is a real...
Derfel, Derfel – sospirò Merlino.
Corsi verso di loro. La bimba era fra le braccia della madre, e io lascia cadere la spada, mi sfilai l'elmo e mi inginocchiai lì accanto. - Dian - sussurrai. - Amore mio.Vidi l'anima tremolare ancora...
But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected. If you understand everything,' I said carefully, 'then there's no room left fo...
Bugger Shekhar. How about a instead?Maybe I’ll read.Your choice, Sharpe said carelessly.
At sea, sometimes, if you take a ship too far from land and the wind rises and the tide sucks with a venomous force and the waves splinter white above the shield-pegs, you have no choice but to go whe...
And when you speak with him, I said, tell him to stop hitting his wife. Erkenwald jerked as though I had just struck him in the face. It is his Christian duty, he said stiffly, to discipline his wife,...
And that, too, was the truth, that a man cannot step back from a fight and stay a man. We make much in this life if we are able. We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble...
And I must be nineteen by now, lord! Maybe even twenty? Eighteen? I suggested. I could have been married four years ago, lord! We
An army, I learned in time, needs a head. It needs one man to lead it, but give an army two leaders and you halve its strength.
Am I to deny Mark justice because he is old and gross and ugly? Do youth and beauty deserve perverted justice? What have I fought for all these years, if not to make certain that justice is even-hande...
Always fight the horse, not the rider.