The first evening in an inn, though, I had remained awake for a good half-hour, fascinated by the remarkable variety of noises the male respiratory apparatus could produce. An entire dormitory full of...
The door opened again a few minutes later, and Jamie emerged, no more than six feet away. His mask of cool reserve was in place, but I knew him well enough to see the marks of a strong emotion under i...
The dark came down on All Hallows’ Eve. We went to sleep to the sound of howling wind and pelting rain, and woke on the Feast of All Saints to whiteness and large soft flakes falling down and down in...
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.’ He did that, every day, for a long time.
That’s simple. You reason with them, and when you’re through, I’ll take them out and thrash them.
That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser
Thank ye, John, he said. I hadna time to say it earlier. I’m verra grateful to ye. Thank me? It was hardly my choice. You abducted me at gunpoint. Jamie smiled; the tension of the last hour had eased,...
Talkin’ like dogs fightin’, he explained. Grrrr! Wuff! He growled, shaking his head in illustration like a dog worrying a rat, and I saw Fergus’s shoulders shake in suppressed hilarity. Scots for sure...
Tad bučiuoki mane tu šimtą sykių,Visą tūkstantį, antrą šimtą sykių,Vėl dar tūkstantį, dar ne vieną šimtą...Daugel tūkstančių kai sudėsim šitaip,Juos sujaksime, kad nebūtų skaičiaus.
THE WIG WOULD have been much too large, given Malcolm’s round-headed resemblance to an oversize muskmelon, but Grey’s own hair—yellow and noticeable, as Malcolm had so tactfully noted—was thick, and w...
THE VENOM OF THE NORTH WIND July 1774 Brianna drove the sharp end of the spade into the muddy bank and pulled out a
Sorcha, he whispered, and realized that he had called her so a moment before. Now, that was odd; no wonder she had been surprised. It was her name in the Gaelic, but he never called her by it. He like...
Soon, God willing, we would settle; find a place to make a home and a life. I wanted nothing more, and yet at the same time, I worried. We had known each other only a few months since my return. Each...
So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie
So I reached down into my workbasket, took my wee knife from its sheath, and went for his balls,
Silly woman, he said in Gaelic. You have not the brain of a fly! I caught the words for foolish, and clumsy, in the subsequent remarks, but quickly stopped listening. I closed my eyes and lost myself...
Shock was giving way to a nervous impulse to laugh. Ken his family? Not likely; and how should he explain that he was the grandson—six times over—of her own brother, Dougal? That he was, in fact, not...
Shell shock, they said in the First World War. Battle fatigue, in the Second. It’s what happens when you live through things you shouldn’t have been able to live through and can’t reconcile that knowl...
She saw it, and an extraordinary change came over her. She seemed scarcely to move, and yet all at once, her whole person was focused on Myers. No white showed around her eyes; they were black and fat...
She pulled my hair, he said reflectively. Took a clump of it out by the roots. I’ll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I’ll take up attacking...