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This wasn't about truth at all. The court didn't want truth, the king didn't want truth. Any truth I could give them, they could ignore as easily as the rest. It wouldn't change their minds.
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There's something nearby," she said. "Something up ahead." The captain heard her and glanced back. "Something dangerous?" "Something dead," Kasia said, and dropped her eyes to her saddle, her hands clenched on the reins."
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Laurence could make no real quarrel with the aims, which were natural and just; but England was at war, after all, and he was conscious, as Temeraire was not, of the impudence in demanding concessions from their own Government under such circumstances: very like mutiny. Yet
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Wat heb je nu weer gedaan, stommeling? - De Draak
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Onderweg was het Woud van me weg geweken, alsof het bang was dat ik de spreuk anders weer zou opzeggen. Fulmia.
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De Draak keerde zich weer naar me om. 'Je bent er dus in geslaagd manschappen hierheen te halen,' merkte hij sarcastisch op.
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Do you think I will be able to breathe fire or spit poison?" Temeraire asked. "I am not sure how I could tell; I tried, but I only blew air."
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Justice is expensive," Tharkay said. "That is why there is so little of it, and that reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it."
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Maximus coughed a while longer, but in the middle of the night towards the end of the week, they were all woken by a terrible squealing, distant shrieks of terror and fire; in a panic they burst out from the tents to discover Maximus attempting guiltily to sneak unnoticed back into the parade grounds, with as much success as was to be expected in this endeavor, and carrying in his already-bloodied jaws a spare ox. This he hurriedly swallowe..
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funny
humor
maximus
sneaking
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Your Majesty, I am a soldier, not a statesman; and I have no great philosophy but that I love my country. I came because it was my duty as a Christian and a man; now it is my duty to return.
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honesty
inspirational
duty
soldier
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Well, luck is nothing to sneeze at, either; we would not get very far if luck were against us,
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Not a hundred feet away the river roared over a cliff's-edge, and were weren't really leaves, even if I'd been careful to forget that.
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magic
leaves
waterfall
river
forget
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That man with my brother is an envoy
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Our people were alone here a long time", she said, and I wondered, what was long to a tree? A thousand years, two thousand, ten? Endless generations, the roots growing deeper every one. "We began to gorget how to be people. We dwindled away little by little. When the sorcerer-king came with his people, my sister let them come into the valley. She thought they could be renewed, and teach them in turn; we could give each other life. But they..
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I'll come with you," Kasia said, and linked her arm in mine to support me: she could tell I needed the help, without a word said."
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Si no quieres que alguien se muera, no lo aporrees una y otra vez en la cabeza.
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Nuestro sino es marcharnos [...]. No hemos de quedarnos para siempre.
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Que hay, aparte de la gente, a lo que merezca la pena aferrarse?
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Recordaba lo que no debia, y habia olvidado demasiado. Recordaba como matar y como odiar, y se le habia olvidado como crecer.
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Su nombre sabia a fuego y a alas, a volutas de humo, a sutileza y a fuerza, y al rasposo susurro de las escamas.
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as if truth didn't mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn't come and listen.
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My girl, my brave girl had done this. She had gone and come back bloody and she had brought us back the spring. And she had come back, she had come back, which was worth all the spring and more for me.
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Not a hundred feet away the river roared over a cliff's-edge, and we weren't really leaves, even if I'd been careful to forget that.
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magic
leaves
waterfall
river
forget
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Laurence considered the matter and could not find an answer for this. "I suppose, in all honesty, being aviators ourselves we cannot like the idea of putting a dragon to death, and so we have found an excuse for letting him live," he said finally. "And as our laws are meant for men, perhaps it is not wholly fair to enforce them upon him." "Oh, that I can well agree with," Temeraire said. "Some of the laws which I have heard make very little..
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You refused him," he said to me, almost angrily. "I'm not a fool, to take gifts from monsters," I said. "Where do you think its power comes from? Nothing like that comes without a price." He laughed, a little shrill and sharp. "Yes, the trick is to have someone else pay it for you,"
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I put my fingers up to brush the fine links. Even lying on my skin, it still felt cool to the touch, and when I looked at myself in the mirror, in the glass I was not standing in my father's study. I was in a grove of dark winter trees, under a pale grey sky, and I could almost feel the snow falling onto my skin.
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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, disappointed."
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it had the feeling of truth, of something that I'd always known and just hadn't ever put into words, or of explaining clearly and plainly something I'd never understood.
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I didn't feel I owed him beauty.
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It's like--it's gleaning in the woods. . . You have to pick your way through the thickets and the trees, and it's different every time.
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Naomi Novik |
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It's very easy to claim you've summoned something that's invisible and incorporeal.
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Don't make mournful faces at me," he added."
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How did you," he said, pushing himself up on an elbow, indignation finally dawning, and I pushed him back down and kissed him."
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Maybe he would let me come in, but he'd want to close the doors up again behind me.
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Naomi Novik |
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But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them.
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Naomi Novik |
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I glared at him speechlessly; how dare he put a pet name on me?
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I felt as though I were pretending to be grown-up.
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they were wild-eyed and terrified even in their courage.
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I felt the soldiers understood perfectly well that we were making sums out of them--this many safe to spend, this number too high, as if each one wasn't a whole man.
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I just sobbed myself out until I had too much of a headache to go on crying, and after that I was cold and stiff
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Kradets't, koito e otkradnal nozh i se e poriazal na nego, ne mozhe da obviniava domakiniata, che go e d'rzhala ost'r.
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нож
поговорка
пословица
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Naomi Novik |
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true, but unkind anyway.
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Naomi Novik |
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and her laugh was like a song that made you want to sing it.
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if he had been in any danger of turning his head at all, except perhaps all the way round like an owl.
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