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Dorothy Dunnett _ Gemini
man had blandly abstained. He had been right: it would have lost him money. But not in Scotland,
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Dorothy Dunnett _ The Ringed Castle
Alec Guthrie's voice, serene from the shadows, said, 'You are not going to Russia. You are not going. All your life you have resented control and brooked no hint of instruction or guidance. This time, your will is not paramount.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ The Ringed Castle
Alec Guthrie's voice, serene from the shadows, said, "You are not going to Russia. You are not going. All your life you have resented control and brooked no hint of instruction or guidance. This time, your will is not paramount.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ King Hereafter
His chest heaved, and he coughed. "You have coughed before," his mother said. "It is a sign of weakness. Control it.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Pawn in Frankincense
You don't understand,' she said. In her lap, the loose hands had ground together: between the fair brows a single line showed, of anger and disgust and a kind of futile perplexity. 'You don't understand: how can you? You were born into a household, with parents and wealth; you knew your friends and your enemies; you knew your position in life; whom you were fighting for: whom you were against. I am alone. Every man is my enemy.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ The Disorderly Knights
On the day that his grannie was killed by the English, Sir William Scott the Younger of Buccleuch was at Melrose Abbey, marrying his aunt.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ The Spring of the Ram
You don't take offence?""Frequently," Nicholas said. "I seldom show it.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Checkmate
But I can't offer you a zoo at St Mary's. Can you make do with what I have?''With Hoddim and Guthrie and Blacklock? What you have is a zoo.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ The Ringed Castle
As a highly qualified Turkish-trained concubine from the harem of Suleiman the Magnificent, Philippa Somerville settled into English court life as a kite among chickens, and as a kite among kites into the Spanish court of the new King-consort Philip.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ The Game of Kings
Lymond ha vuelto
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Dorothy Dunnett _ The Game of Kings
A moment later the music began, and Kate shrank beneath the onslaught of its message: the fury of hope and joy that towered in the notes, outburning the sunlight and outpouring the volumes of the sea. All that was bold and noble and happy in created sound burst from the metempirical quills, and it was a blasphemy not to rejoice.Christian died in its midst, purposeful and successful; the last struggle unseen by anyone but Kate, and laying no bridle on the living.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ The Unicorn Hunt
que je vive, mon cueur ne changera … Mon chois est fait, aultre ne se fera …
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