Venemous, Jamie corrected him. If it bites you and makes ye sick, it’s venemous; if you bite it and it makes ye sick, it’s poisonous.
Was a struggle to choose one's own destiny less worthwhile than the necessity to stop a great evil?
We didn’t speak anymore, then, as the melting boundaries of our bodies disappeared. It was slow, dreamy and peaceful, his body and mine as much as mine was his, so that I curled my foot round his leg...
We've ghosts enough between us, Sassenach. If the evils of the past canna hinder us-neither then shall any fears of the future. We must just must put things behind us and get on. Aye?
Well, I say it is the place of science only to observe, he said. To seek cause where it may be found, but to realize that there are many things in the world for which no cause shall be found; not beca...
Well, I'll tell ye, Sassenach, graceful is possibly not the first word that springs to mind at the thought of you. But I talk to you as I talk to my own soul. And, Sassenach, your face is my heart.
Well, and he supposed a duel with a drunken midget was as good a test as any.
Well, legends are many-legged beasties, aye? But they generally have at least one foot on the truth.
Well, let them look, he thought, quelling the urge. It only matters if she’s looking back, aye? He
Well, that’s the hell of it, isn’t it? she said, turning away. You never know, but you have to act anyway, don’t you?
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What Jack Randall had done to him had sunk into his soul as surely as the flails of the lash had sunk in his back, and had left scars every bit as permanent. I
What had happened to him was permanent. John Grey had lost a wife—however he might have regarded her. It had taken courage of more than one kind to bring William here, and to send him off with Jamie....
What happened, she says! Aye, what indeed? I tell ye to stay all snug below wi’ Marsali, and next thing I ken, ye’ve dropped out of the sky and landed at my feet, sopping wi’ blood!
What if I cannot keep ye safe?... You and the rest of them? I shall try wi all my strength, Sassenach, and I dinna mind if I die doing it but what i should die too soon - and fail?You won't.'ll try no...
What is it about ye, Sassenach, I wonder? he said conversationally, eyes still fixed on Myers.What is about me?He turned then, and gave me a narrow eye. What it is that makes every man ye meet want t...
What, she’s taken the hairs off her honeypot? he said, horrified into uncharacteristic vulgarity.
When we met, that night aboard the Porpoise—I’m glad you didn’t know who I was. I … liked you. Then.
Where d'ye think he is now? Jenny said suddenly. Ian, I mean.He glanced at the house, then at the new grave waiting, but of course that wasn't Ian any more. He was panicked for a moment, for his earli...
While Fergus was possessed of dark good looks and a dashing manner that might well win a young girl’s heart, he lacked a few of the things that might appeal somewhat more to conservative Scottish pare...
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