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  1. Glen Cook _ Chronicles of the Black

    Cruel it may be, but most of us enjoy what we do-and the Captain more than anyone. This is a favorite game, matching wits with a Raker. He is blind to the dead, to the burning villages, to the starving children. As is the Rebel. Two blind armies, able to see nothing but one another.
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  2. Glen Cook _ Chronicles of the Black

    Thunderheads with lightning swords aflash on their brows grumbled and pounded the badlands, reminding me that trouble was not far away."
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  3. Glen Cook _ Chronicles of the Black

    Raven is an asset in any game including One-Eye. One-Eye cheats. But never when Raven is playing.
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  4. Glen Cook _ Chronicles of the Black

    My arguments were beginning to sound a little strained to me, too. I was in the position of a priest trying to sell religion.
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  5. Glen Cook _ Chronicles of the Black

    An army without faith in itself is beaten more surely than an army defeated in battle.
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  6. Glen Cook _ Chronicles of the Black

    Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey."
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  7. Glen Cook _ Chronicles of the Black

    They steal our yesterdays and leave us no youth but that of our children.…
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  8. Glen Cook _ Chronicles of the Black

    I had to search a moment before spotting the soft glow advancing along the aisles between enemy divisions. It surrounded a child on a big white horse, bearing a standard of red emblazoned with a white rose.
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  9. Glen Cook _ Chronicles of the Black

    Lightning from a clear sky smote the Necropolitan Hill.
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  10. Glen Cook _ Chronicles of the Black

    Madle named names. Some were on my list and some were not. Those that were not I assumed to be spear carriers. Tally had been well and reliably scouted. The last corpse went out. I gave Madle a small gold piece. He goggled. His customers regarded him with unfriendly eyes. I grinned. "For services rendered." Madle blanched, stared at the coin. It was a kiss of death. His patrons would think he had helped set the ambush. "Gotcha," I whispered. "Want to get out of this alive?" He looked at me in fear and hatred. "Who the hell are you guys?" he demanded in a harsh whisper. "The Black Company, Madle. The Black Company." I don't know how he managed, but he went even whiter.
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  11. Glen Cook _ Chronicles of the Black

    The Lady made a few gestures around Bomanz-who looked pretty moth-eaten-and said a few words in a language I did not understand. Why do sorcerers always use languages nobody understands? Even Goblin and One-Eye do it. Each has confided that he cannot follow the tongue the other uses. Maybe they make it up?
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  12. Glen Cook _ Chronicles of the Black

    We gathered our things and began taking leave of camp followers who had trickled out from the city. Our animals and equipment would be their reward for faith and friendship. I spent a sad, gentle hour with a woman to whom I meant more than I suspected. We shed no tears and told one another no lies. I left her with memories and most of my pathetic fortune. She left me with a lump in my throat and a sense of loss not wholly fathomable.
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