They had marched all the soldiers’ miles together, and now their ways parted. They would promise reunion, but such promises were so rarely kept.
The wheel of fortune that had once raised her so high had taken her into the utter depths.
The rest merely requires common sense; it is like a boxing match, the more you punch the better it is.
So you know it was a glorious battle, Hook, in which God favoured the English, but God's favour is a fickle thing.''Are you telling me He's not on our side?''I'm telling you that God is on the side of...
Poor Uther. He believed that virtues are handed down through a man's loins! What nonsense! A child is like a calf; if the thing is born crippled you knock it smartly on the skull and serve the cow aga...
Politics were so very simple, the Cardinal thought, just so long as a man believed no one, double-crossed everyone, kept a full treasury, and inveigled others into doing the dirty work.
Most folk consider that a woman aboard a ship brings nothing but bad luck because it provokes the jealousy of Ran, the goddess of the sea who will abide no rivals,
Men and women used pliers to pull teeth from the dead and, for years after, false teeth were known as Waterloo Teeth. Some
Liberty! Man has no liberty except the liberty to obey rules, but who makes the rules? With luck, Kate, it will be reasonable men making reasonable rules.
It is not difficult to be a lord, a jarl, or even a king, but it is difficult to be a leader.Most men want to follow, and what they demand of their leader is prosperity. We are the ring-givers, the go...
I would hear him screaming, I would watch him bleed, I would tear his flesh piece by piece before I would worry about Æthelflaed. This was family. This was revenge.
I will never understand Christians. I have seen men and women whip themselves till their backs were nothing but strips of flesh hanging from exposed ribs, watched pilgrims limp on bleeding broken feet...
I gazed at the far woods and knew our enemies were also sharpening their blades. They had to be confident. They knew the dawn would bring them a battle, victory, plunder, and reputation.
I don’t care if he’s got a tail and tits, just take me to him. The
I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,’ I heard myself saying, ‘and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them. Know that their voice can make your heart miss a beat and t...
I am not sure,' Mordecai told Thomas, 'whether omens can be trusted.''Of course they can.''I should like to hear your reasons. But show me your urine first.''You said I was cured,' Thomas protested. '...
Haesten.If this world ever contained one worthless, treacherous slime-coated piece of human dung then it was Haesten.
E fiquei olhando para aquela costa, sabendo que o destino iria me trazer de volta, e toquei o punho de Bafo de Serpente, porque a espada também tinha um destino e eu sabia que ela voltaria a este loca...
Christians like to dream of the perfect world, a place where there is no fighting, where sword-blades are hammered into plowshares, and where the lion, whatever that is, sleeps with the lamb. It is a...
Anything that comes from the north is bad news.