Some hae meat that canna eat, And some could eat that want it. We hae meat, and we can eat, And so may God be thankit. Amen.
Some were in Gaelic and some in English, used apparently according to which language best fitted the rhythm of the words, for all of them had a beauty to the speaking, beyond the content of the tale i...
Something wrong with short men, is there? Roger inquired. They tend to turn mean if they don’t get their way, Claire answered. Like small yapping dogs. Cute and fluffy, but cross them and you’re likel...
Sometimes I want to ride you like a wild horse, and bring you to the taming—did you know that? I can do it, you know I can. Drag you over the edge and drain you to a gasping husk. I can drive you to t...
Still, when had the right to live as one wished ever been considered trivial? Was a struggle to choose one’s own destiny less worthwhile than the necessity to stop a great evil?
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.
Testosterone poisoning,
That is what God is for. Worry doesna help—prayer does. Sometimes,
That was the first time that he ever touched me willingly, he said quietly. And the last—until this evening, when I gave him the other copy of that miniature.
That's how ye do it,' his brother Ian had told him... 'Ye find a way to live for that one more minute. And then another. And another... But after a time, ye find ye're in a different place than ye wer...
That's not precisely what I had in mind. Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.
The Frenchman’s Gold! Beyond its value as treasure—which would belong to the Crown in any case—the gold had a considerable and personal value to John William Grey. The finding of that half-mythical ho...
The body is amazingly plastic. The spirit, even more so. But there are some things you don’t come back from. Say ye so, a nighean? True, the body’s easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled—yet th...
The body is amazingly plastic. The spirit, even more so. But there are some things you don’t come back from.
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.
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 greatest burden lies in caring for those we cannot help.
The implication was reasonably clear; I condemned him, and his minions would be round promptly to cut off my nipples and burn Jared’s warehouse. I licked dry lips, cursing Louis. Why couldn’t he just...
The large thumb, now—she did lean forward then and touch it lightly—that wouldn’t change much. Means you’re strong-minded, and have a will not easily crossed. She twinkled at me. Reckon your husband c...
The long lids of her eyes closed halfway, like a basking cat’s, but the smile remained on that wide, soft mouth—those lips that hurt, then healed. The light glowed in her skin, bronzed the tiny brown...
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