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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c54f6ff | wordy descriptions of the journey, which you can get from Parkman or Gregg if you want them - or from volume | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| 6f30f7e | man when I see one - and he was the best.7 | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| f0a4310 | I'd have found it amusing enough, I dare say, if I hadn't been irritated by the thought that these irresponsible Christian zealots were only making things harder for the Army and Company, who had important work to do. It was all so foolish and unnecessary--the heathen creeds, for all their nonsensical mumbo-jumbo, were as good as any for keeping the rabble in order, and what else is religion for? In | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| ba1ecad | the guard house of the bloodiest valley in Britain. One is not surprised to learn that an early owner was boiled alive by impatient neighbours; there is a menace about the massive walls, about the rain-soaked hillside, about the dreary gurgle of the river. | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| ef8a1cb | England had another line of defence, in the establishment of numbers of "slewdogges"48 for the tracking down of raiders; money was raised for their maintenance, and from the number of them stolen in raids it is obvious that they were highly prized. They could be worth as much as PS10." -- | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| 7b61df2 | the Borderers regarded reiving as legitimate (which is true), but that they held murder to be a crime, and consequently were reluctant to commit it--except in the heat of action or when covered by the virtual absolution of deadly feud. It is rather like saying that a heavy drinker, in his sober moments, is an abstemious man. | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| 663d498 | And my good lord, for your honors better satisfaction, that it was not so barbarouslie nor butcherlie don as you thinck it to be, it should seeme your honor hath bene wrongfullie enformed, in sayinge he was cutt in manye peeces, after his deathe--for if he had bene cutt in many peces, he could not a lived till the next morninge, which themselves reported he did--which shewes he was not cutt in verie many peeces! | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| 88693f6 | You are a sorry creature, Flashman. I have failed in you. But even to you I must say, this is not the end. You cannot continue here, but you are young, Flashman, and there is time yet. Though your sins be as red as crimson, yet shall they be as white as snow. You have fallen very low, but you can be raised up again ... | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| 1634645 | The golden age, of Scotland, of Anglo-Scottish harmony, and of the Border country, ended when King Alexander III of Scotland fell over a cliff in 1286. Few stumbles--if indeed His Majesty was not pushed--have been more important than that one. | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| a7e585d | One thing the war ensured; whatever treaties might be made and truces agreed at the top, however often a state of official peace existed, there was never again to be quiet along the frontier while England and Scotland remained politically separate countries. | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| 869748f | People who have suffered every hardship and atrocity, and who have every reason to fear that they will suffer them again, may submit tamely, or they may fight for survival. The English and Scots of the frontier were not tame folk. | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| 5343764 | They scorched the earth, destroyed their own homes and fields, took to the hills and the wilderness with their beasts and all they could move, and carried on the struggle by onfall, ambush, cutting supply lines, and constant harrying. | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| 8288916 | Unfortunately, to the ordinary people, war and peace were not very different. The trouble with all Anglo-Scottish wars was that no one ever won them; they were always liable to break out again. | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| d16ad58 | The Border, in a sense, was a bloody buffer state which absorbed the principal horrors of war. With the benefit of hindsight, one could almost say that the social chaos of the frontier was a political necessity. | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| 9594b99 | dark, wiry soldier at the first bed was cleaning his rifle, hauling the pull-through along the barrel. 'Not like that,' said Bennet-Bruce. 'Pull it straight out, not at an angle, or you'll wear away the muzzle and your bullets will fly off squint, missing the enemy, who will seize the opportunity to unseam you, from nave to chaps.' He tugged at the pull-through. 'What the hell have you got on the end of this, the battalion colours? | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| 94e6a48 | the idyll was marred by the appearance round the southern headland of a small, waspish-looking vessel, standing slowly out on a course parallel to our own. It happened that I saw her first, and drew my commander's attention to her with a sailor-like hail of: "Jesus! Look at that!" Spring" | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| cacbbbe | Aye, weel, here's tae us.' 'Wha's like us?' said McGilvray. 'Dam' few,' said Forbes. 'And they're a' deid,' I said, completing the ritual. 'Aw-haw-hey,' said Daft Bob and we drank. | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| e42d00f | Other March law offences included truce-breaking, attacking castles, impeding a Warden, importing wool, and a delightful local custom known as "bauchling and reproaching". This meant publicly vilifying and upbraiding someone, usually at a day of truce; such abuse might be directed at a man who had broken his word, or had neglected to honour a bond or pay a ransom. The "bauchler" (also known as brangler, bargler, etc.) sometimes made his rep.. | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| e8a3b97 | he was a man of his hands, and most were, he might decide to wait and plan for the day when he could raid the robbers in his turn, and get his revenge illegally with interest. Or he could decide on pursuit, across the frontier if necessary. This was a strictly legal, almost a hallowed process, known by the descriptive name of "hot trod"." | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| 55bf264 | the fatal privilege". It enshrined the right to recover one's property by force, and in practice to deal with the thieves out of hand. A trod might lawfully be made at any time within six days after the offence; if it was followed immediately it was a hot trod, otherwise it was known as a cold trod. In either case it was governed by strict rules; a careful line was drawn, under Border law, between a trod and a reprisal raid." | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| b0403af | The 1563 agreement between England and Scotland speaks of "lawfull Trodd with Horn and Hound, with Hue and Cry and all other accustomed manner of fresh pursuit"; according to Scott, this obliged the pursuer to carry a lighted turf on his lance-point, as earnest of open and peaceful intentions." | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| f867212 | Blackmail was paid by the tenant or farmer to a "superior" who might be a powerful reiver, or even an outlaw, and in return the reiver not only left him alone, but was also obliged to protect him from other raiders and to recover his goods if they were carried off. It reached the proportions of a major industry, with the blackmailers employing collectors and enforcers (known as brokers), and even something like accountants." | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| 92eb9f9 | That guttural, hissing mumble, with all its "Tz" and "zl" and "rr" noises, like a drunk Scotch-Jew having trouble with his false teeth, is something you don't forget in a hurry. So" | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| d0886e2 | you see, and the folly of sitting smug in judgment years after, stuffed with piety and ignorance and book-learned bias. Humanity is beastly and stupid, aye, and helpless, and there's an end to it. | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| f31900f | What it says is that when going against your teenage child's wishes, the greatest wisdom is to say what you have to say, do what you have to do, and then stop--because they will not. An overwhelmingly valuable skill in the parenting of today's teenagers is learning to disengage--sooner rather than later. | Anthony E. Wolf | ||
| 25ffa74 | All rights reserved. No part of this book may | Danielle Steel | ||
| 998033f | anything interesting to save my life, just | Danielle Steel | ||
| 33f5120 | followed her outside, deeply moved. | Danielle Steel | ||
| 754e9ca | smoke a cigar. Sophie had heard him come in and found him there. She was surprised he | Danielle Steel | ||
| 0b603d1 | Como voce lida com suas responsabilidades, sua vida, o que faz dela, se prefere tornar a si mesma infeliz, no fim das contas isso so diz respeito a voce. | Danielle Steel | ||
| 127c0f4 | Nao se encontra a felicidade a custa de outra pessoa. | Danielle Steel | ||
| e876ea1 | Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered, but wore it well, with dignity and grace. Rather than dragging her down into depression, her pain had lifted her into a peaceful place. She was not a Buddhist, but shared philosophies with them, in that she didn't fight what happened to her, but instead drifted with it, allowing life to carry her from one experience to the next. It was that .. | strong-woman | Danielle Steel | |
| f23379a | Hang in. We'll make it. We all have each other. | emotions family friendships rich surprise tragic | Danielle Steel | |
| 24407ca | discovered | Danielle Steel | ||
| a3a6dad | Carole decided | Danielle Steel | ||
| 6b77547 | seemed silly to Faith. And offensive | Danielle Steel | ||
| 047700a | His smiles were hard won, but when they came, they were well worth it. They lit up his face like summer sunshine. The rest of the time, and far more frequently, he seemed lost in winter. And when he laughed, he was a different person. | friendship love pretty romantic smiles | Danielle Steel | |
| c89bf91 | life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir | Danielle Steel | ||
| 70c07ec | World | Danielle Steel | ||
| e86a74b | He generally traveled to Europe four or five times a year. The pharmaceutical empire he ran had research centers in Germany, Switzerland, and France, and huge laboratories and factories in England. It was always interesting coming over here, exchanging ideas with their research teams, and exploring new avenues of marketing, which was his real forte. But this time it was far more than that, far more than just a research trip, or the unveilin.. | Danielle Steel | ||
| 12aad22 | And so far, their most recent results had been perfect. Their meetings in Germany and Switzerland had gone brilliantly. The testing done in their laboratories there was even more rigorous than what had been done in the States. They were sure now. It was safe. They could move ahead to Phase One Human Trials, as soon as the FDA approved it, which meant giving low doses of the medication to a select number of willing, well-informed subjects, a.. | Danielle Steel | ||
| 487f1c2 | Wilson-Donovan had already submitted their application to the FDA in January, months before. Based on the information they were developing now, they were going to ask for Vicotec to be put on the "Fast Track," pressing ahead with human trials of the drug, and eventually early release, once the FDA saw how safe it was and Wilson-Donovan proved it to them. The "Fast Track" process was used in order to speed the various steps toward approval, .. | Danielle Steel | ||
| 8532468 | Wilson-Donovan wanted to move ahead as quickly as possible to clinical trials on patients, which was why it was so important to test Vicotec's safety now before the FDA hearings in September, which would hopefully put it on the "Fast Track." Peter was absolutely sure that the testing being concluded by Paul-Louis Suchard, the head of the laboratory in Paris, would only confirm the good news he had just been given in Geneva." | Danielle Steel | ||
| a815e02 | Holiday or business, monsieur?" The customs officer looked unconcerned as he stamped Peter's passport, and barely glanced up at him after looking at the picture. He had blue eyes and dark hair and looked younger than his forty-four years. He had fine features, he was tall, and most people would have agreed that he was handsome." | Danielle Steel |