Philippa Somerville, standing back a little, did not withdraw her arm. In her white face, a shadow of motherly irritation appeared. 'Has no one here any sense? Be quiet and sit down. The world will...

Depose him,' said Will Scott, astonished. 'The Grand Master's holy office terminates with his life.' 'And can nobody think of an answer to that?' said Will Scott.

It was a piece of advice only, and aimed at myself as much, I suppose, as at you.-For those of easy tongues, she said. Remember, some live all their lives without discovering this truth; that the...

Oh, well. Everyone else has suave, cosmopolitan sheep: why not us? The Millers at Hepple have a ewe that's been to Kelso three times, and they've never been farther than Ford in their lives." Kate...

Lymond's behaviour, as always, went to the limits of polite usage and then hurtled off into space.

So small a spirit, to lodge such sorrows as mankind has brought you. Live … live.… Wait for me, new, frightened soul. And though the world should reel to a puny death, and the wolves are appointed...

If I can't be personal, I don't want to argue," said his hostess categorically. "I may be missing your points, but you're much too busy dodging mine.

Kate viewed him suspiciously. "I don't see why I should abandon my entertainment because of your conscience." "It isn't quite conscience so much as horrified admiration," said Lymond.

What's wrong? Has Francis been rude? Then you must try to overlook it. I know you wouldn't think so, but he is thoroughly upset by Tom Erskine's death; and when Francis is troubled he doesn't show it,...

Perfectly prepared to be an eavesdropper but unwilling to look like one, Philippa backed quickly towards the door and collided, hard, with an unseen person striding forward equally fast into the room....

To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or pained, or disappointed, or passionately angry. If he rested, he did so alone; if he slept, he...

I have learned,' said Lymond, 'that kindness without love is no kindness.

{Robin Stewart} was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been there in your hand, ready for him. For you are a leader-don't you know it? I...

It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.

The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios...

Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.

I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

Jerott, for God's sake! Are you doing this for a wager?' said Lymond, his patience gone at last. 'What does anyone want out of life? What kind of freak do you suppose I am? I miss books and good verse...

Repressively, Lymond himself answered. "I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody 'got' me," he said.

Today,' said Lymond, 'if you must know, I don't like living at all. But that's just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I'll be bright as a bedbug again.

I wish to God, said Gideon with mild exasperation, that you'd talk-just once-in prose like other people.

By the 1950s, the nation's premier workshop for the shrewd construction of elaborate rules to ensure the minority elite's power over the majority was the state of Virginia

{Calhoun} He feared, as his successors today do, a government that hits band of like-minded property supremacists could not control

Calhoun more an more identified the federal government as a menace to liberty

Slavery is an institution ordaines by Providence, honored by time, sanctioned by the Gospel, and especially favorable to personal and national liberty Calhoun

As for asking Tam Lin, Matt didn't know how to bring up the subject. By the way, is anyone planning to cut me up into T-bone steaks? Even more terrifying was the bodyguard's possible answer: You hit...

humans are endlessly stupid and greedy.

I could do it, Listen boasted. Show me how and I could run the whole damn planet. You can't even reach the on button, said Cienfuegos.

You get used to being evil.

Scar tissue had formed a knot on the bottom of his foot. He inspected the writing frequently-PROPERTY OF THE ALACRÁN ESTATE-but the scar had sliced through the tiny lettering. It was more difficult...