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Proper circus you make,' Berkley said, with a snort of laughter Laurence considered unnecessary, when they landed in the clearing and set the dog down; it promptly went tearing around the parade ground yelling at the dragons. For their part they were only interested and curious until the dog bit a too-inquisitive Dulcia on the tender nip of her muzzle, at which she hissed in anger; the dog yelped and fled back to the dubious shelter of Teme..
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It seems perfectly plain to me that it is war itself which must be halted, without wanting one side or another defeated in particular.
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Well, I don't know, yet," the dragonet said, "but I mean to find a way: just because the business will be difficult is no excuse for not making the attempt."
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You intolerable lunatic," he snarled at me, and then he caught my face between his hands and kissed me."
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She was safe for another moment, one more moment, and all of life was only moments, after all.
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All those stories must have ended this same way, with someone tired going home from a field full of death, but no one ever sang this part. Borys
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Those the walkers carried into the Wood were less lucky. We didn't know what happened to them, but they came back out sometimes, corrupted in the worst way: smiling and cheerful, unharmed. They seemed almost themselves to anyone who didn't know them well, and you might spend half a day talking with one of them and never realize anything was wrong, until you found yourself taking up a knife and cutting off your own hand, putting out your own..
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I don't like to be coarse, but if I did, I would be! -Granby commenting on something Rankin has said.
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After a moment, he said, in almost marveling tones, "Are you deranged?"
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Angry, I think. I didn't remember ever being angry before. Anger had always seemed pointless to me, a dog circling after its own tail.
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I knew myself for the first time in a week, standing on earth instead of polished marble.
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He says to land," Tharkay translated, with improbable brevity; at Laurence's frowning look he added, "and he calls us a great many impolite names; do you wish them all translated?"
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My head ached worst of all, some part of me tethered back to the valley, stretched out of recognizable shape and trying to make sense of myself when I was so far from anything I knew.
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Temeraire:) "Can one hire a translator to say things properly?" "Yes; they are called lawyers," Tharkay said, and laughed softly to himself."
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In short, he tried to teach me as best he could, and to advise me in my blundering through my new forest, though it was foreign country to him. He did still resent my success, not from jealousy but as a matter of principle: it offended his sense of the proper order of things that my slapdash workings did work, and he scowled as much when I was doing well as when I had made some evident mistake.
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Fire wouldn't burn he; blade wouldn't cut her, no matter how long we hacked away.
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Don't stand there like a cretin," he said. "Take it."
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I have been speaking with Dyhern a great deal on the subject of dueling," Temeraire said, "and it seems plain to me that something must be done. You must give me your word, Laurence, that if anyone ever should insult you again, they must be told at once that I will insist on being your second myself. I am very much indebted to Mr. Hammond for having killed that wretched fellow, but in future, if anyone likes to prove they are not a coward b..
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It wasn't that I wanted a husband and a baby; I didn't, or rather, I only wanted them the way I wanted to live to a hundred: someday, far off, never thinking about the particulars. But they meant life: she was living, and I wasn't.
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Did the tsar refuse to marry you?" I asked. I thought the duke might have been angry with her if he had: he hadn't seemed like a man to be satisfied if his plans went awry. "No," she said. "I am tsarina. For as long as I live." She said it dryly, as if she didn't expect that to last long. "The tsar is a black sorcerer. He is possessed by a demon of flame that wants to devour me." I laughed; I couldn't help it. It wasn't mirth, it was bitter..
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It certainly went quicker to throw money away than to make it
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We hadn't taken him prisoner; he'd just followed us out, trailing after us with a puzzled look, like a man who knew he wasn't dreaming, but felt he should have been.
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and a clean pocket-handkerchief. The
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Four years! My heart was glad as birds.
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I [Miryem] went staggering to all the shelves in the room, looking for anything left to change, and when I didn't find anything after going round three times, I just stood there stupidly for a few more moments, and then I lay down on my mountain of gold like an improbable dragon and fell asleep without meaning to do so.
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I do not care if Laurence tells me not to squash you
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keep your eyes on him, you wretched vainglorious creature,
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If you really wanted to court me, you'd have to do it by my family's laws, and you'd have to marry me the same way." I said, and folded my arms, knowing that would be the end of it, of course. And I wasn't sorry; I wouldn't be. I wouldn't regret any man who wouldn't do that, no matter what else he was or offered me; that much had lived in my heart all my life, a promise between me and my people, that my children would still be Israel no mat..
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It seems very strange that the ocean is full of things that one can eat as one likes, and on land everything seems to be spoken for," Temeraire said,"
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There are authorities to choose from," Tharkay said, "to suit any action, if you like; I prefer to keep the choice a little closer."
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I have never before considered the feelings of a cow. I suppose they must not care for us at all.' 'They are only dumb beasts,' Laurence said, 'and such thought surely beyond them. Any animal will defend its life and young, but that is not the same as being a thinking, reasoning creature.' 'Only, how could one be certain?' Temeraire said. 'After all, if one wishes to be particularly dull, one might be like that fellow Salcombe, and say that..
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No." Laurence said, "I mean to retire when we have returned. I have enough money to keep Temeraire now, and enough of a countenance to ask my brother to put us up on one of the farms." Or they might return to Australia, or to China. Temeraire has every right to ask that of him now that the war was won. Laurence did not mean to refuse him, he only hoped to go back to Wollaton Hall first and find a way to carry it with him somehow. He longed..
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The Dragon's tower is a long way in the other direction, a piece of chalk stuck in the base of the western mountains.
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And I wasn't old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less, because I knew she would be taken from me soon. She
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The river flows to the sea, whatever the wind says about it
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she's been living alone with a man for ten years, so of course she's ruined, even though the girls all say he never puts a hand on them.
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No, it is just pyrite, but it is very pretty, is it not? I suppose you are one of those hoarding creatures," Laurence said, looking affectionately up at Temeraire; many dragons had an inborn fascination with jewels or precious metals. "I am afraid I am not rich enough a partner for you; I will not be able to give you a heap of gold to sleep on." "I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on," Te..
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Now come on. Let's find the baby unicorns and get out of here.
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though if Fanshawe had not spoken in so unbecoming a way, Laurence would have liked to keep Carver out of it, as he knew the boy had a poor head for heights, .
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They moved out of Jena early the next morning, with Prince Louis and the rest of the advance guard, for the town of Saalfeld,
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it offended his sense of the proper order of things that my slapdash workings did work, and he scowled as much when I was doing well as when I had made some evident mistake.
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He made her give him gold just to live, as if she belonged to him because he was strong enough to kill her. My father was strong enough to kill me but that did not mean I belonged to him.
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Oh, Hammond-intolerable, but he will see the job through.
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When they had dismounted, he indulged himself in a shudder of his whole body. "That is more than I undertake to do again!' --this to the admiral, in reproachful tones. "Those two monstrously large beasts! Going right up to them like that and dangling their captains in front of them just as if to say, look what I have got, ha ha! I am all astonishment they did not leap upon me at once. I hope they did not get a clear look at me. If they ever..
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