Tri-gravida, well-nourished
Unspecified. I was amused. So you have the proverbial horse thief in your
Was awakened abruptly just after dawn by a tiny stinging sensation on top of my head. I blinked and put up a hand to investigate. The movement startled a large gray jay who had been pulling hairs out...
Wasn’t crying. Grief and shock simply overflowed; I could not contain them.
What he had learned himself by pain and grace? That only by forgiveness could she forget – and that forgiveness was not a single act, but a matter of constant practice.
While most people became irritable when hungry, a redheaded person with an empty stomach was a walking time bomb.
You do for shock? Hot liquids, blankets. Brandy.
—Te encontraré —susurró—. Te lo prometo. Aunque deba soportar doscientos años de purgatorio, doscientos años sin ti. Ése será el castigo por mis crímenes; por haber mentido, matado, robado y traiciona...
O verdadeiro perdão não é forçado - disse -, mas cai como o suave sereno do céu...
Toi d'abord.- Non, toi.- Pourquoi ?- J'ai peur.- Peur de quoi Sassenach ?- De ne plus pouvoir m'arrêter de le dire.Il lança un regard vers la ligne d'horizon où se levait la faucille de la lune.- C'es...
But there came a point when one abandoned hope for faith, and trusted fate for charity.
Still I dinna expect anything to happen to me. But if it should...If it does, then I want there to be a place for you; I want someone for you to go to if I am...not there to care for you. If it canna...
Two Protestants, amazingly bound to Catholics and bemused at the strange tides of fate that had washed over them; two men left alone by the misfortunes of life, and now surprised to find themselves th...
23 RETURN TO LEOCH
A Highlander in full regalia is an impressive sight—any Highlander, no matter how old, ill-favored, or crabbed in appearance. A tall, straight-bodied, and by no means ill-favored Highlander in the pri...
A cold supper, were you thinking? I asked dubiously.I was not, he said firmly, I mean to light a roaring fire in the kitchen hearth, fry up a dozen eggs in butter, and eat them all, then lay ye down o...
A conclusion is simply the point at which you give up thinking. He gave up, and as he rose stiffly to his feet, found that a conclusion had indeed formed itself in his mind, much as a pearl forms insi...
A fistula is a passage between two things that ought never to be joined and is, generally speaking, a bad thing.
A forced oath canna bind a man, though, or keep him from his knowledge of right.
A general cry of What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!
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