He came through the front door just as I barreled into the hallway, and grabbed me round the waist, kissing me with sun-dusty enthusiasm and sandpaper whiskers.
Grey was thinking that Lieutenant Rimes was equally likely to rise to great heights in his service or to be court-martialed and hanged at Execution Dock, but he kept these thoughts to himself.
Grey was still in his shirtsleeves; the rain had cut through the cloth to his flesh.
For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary
Faith is as powerful a force as science, he concluded, voice soft in the darkness, but far more dangerous.
Captain Leonard introduced me briefly to Mr. Overholt, the
But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when ti...
Blood of my blood, he whispered, and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens. You are mine, always,
A standing cock is quite blind, my dear, he said at last, eyes still shut. Surely you know that, physician that you are.
A forced oath canna bind a man, though, or keep him from his knowledge of right.
We've had some luck, both good and bad.
You understood why people have always looked up into the sky when talking to God. You need to feel the immensity of something very much bigger than yourself, and there it is—immeasurably vast, and alw...
Whistle
Well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so far as professional advancement goes.
Thought that was perhaps how some ghosts were made; where a will and a purpose had survived, heedless of the frail flesh that fell by the wayside, unable to sustain life long enough.
The power and the danger of magic lie in the people who believe it.
The ancient savagery that men call motherhood, who mistake its tenderness for weakness.
Met with you. Captain Randall said you were stealing cattle,
Intended to repel Evil, which are the constant Accompaniment to their Conversations with myself.
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