The three thieves looked around. As their eyes grew accustomed to the gloom, they received a general impression of armourality, with strong overtones of helmetness.
Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal.Isn't that man your butler? said Ahmed.Yes.One of your soldiers said he bit a man's nose off.Vimes shrugged...
Mr Vimes, said Mrs Winkings, ve cannot help but notice that you still haf not employed any of our members in the Vatch...Say 'Watch', why don't you? Vimes thought. I know you can. Let the twenty-third...
Look down, your grace, said Skimmer. Mhm, mhm.Vimes realized he could feel the faintest prick of a knife blade on his stomach. Look down further, he said.Inigo looked down. He swallowed. Vimes had a k...
I shall fear not. According to the Testament of Mezerek, the fisherman Nonpo spent four days in the belly of a giant fish, said Constable Visit.The thunder seemed particularly loud in the silence.Wash...
I always carry the book of Holy Writ...and something to read...
Her books on alchemy were marvellous objects, every page a work of the engraver's art, but they nowhere contained instructions like Be sure to open a window. They have instructions like Adde to the...
Everybody does it! Quirke burst out. It's !Everybody? said Vimes. He looked around at the squad. Anyone else here take bribes?His glare ran from face to face, causing most of the squad to do an immedi...
After a few minutes, Molly came partway up the short ladder to the bridge and stopped. Do I need to ask permission to come up there or something?Why would you? I asked.She considered. It's what they d...
The salamander flared, etching the room with searing white light and dark shadows. Otto screamed. He fell to the floor, clutching at his throat. He sprang to his feet, goggle-eyed and gasping, and sta...
When he was a boy he'd read books about great military campaigns, and visited the museums and looked with patriotic pride at the paintings of famous cavalry charges, last stands and glorious victories...
That was a ! he said. An evil spirit! The peasants down in the valleys hang up charms against them! But I thought they were just a superstition!No, they're a substition, said Susan. I mean they're rea...
Look, sir, I know Angua. She's not the useless type. She doesn't stand there and scream helplessly. She makes other people do that.
Is that the drink with the vodka? Because- No, said Lady Margolotta quietly. This, I am afraid, is the other kind. Still, ve have that in common, don't ve? Neither of us drinks...alcohol. I believe yo...
Upstairs, in what had been until then the cash office, Young Sam slept peacefully in a makeshift bed. One day, Vimes hoped, he would be able to tell him that on one special night he'd been guarded by...
The plain old Sam Vimes had fought back. He got rid of most of the plumes and the stupid tights, and ended up with a dress uniform that at least looked as though its owner was male. But the helmet had...
Legitimate First watched them go as they walked away. Sergeant Colon felt he was being measured up.I've always wondered about his name, said Nobby, turning and waving. I mean...Legitimate?Can't blame...
It was funny how people were people everywhere you went, even if the people concerned weren't the people the people who made up the phrase people are people everywhere had traditionally thought of as...
Winder's mind felt even fuzzier than it had done over the past few years, but he was certain about cake. He'd been eating cake, and now there wasn't any. Through the mists he saw it, apparently close...
Murphy caught that arm and continued the motion, using her own body as a fulcrum in a classic hip throw - except that Binder was facing in the opposite direction than usual for that technique.You coul...