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| a9fb4b4 | What are our intentions, sir?" "Our intentions, Milton? Our intentions are victory, fame, glory, peace, forgiveness of our enemies, reconciliation, magnanimity, prosperity, happiness, and the assured promise of heaven's reward." "Then might I suggest, sir," Cogswell said, trying to sober the ebullient Senator, "that we advance and occupy that stand of trees?" | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 4af3617 | The English chevauchee was a tactic to destroy a country's power, to starve the lords of taxes, to burn their | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 9f8a0eb | of jackets that had their sleeves threaded onto two poles cut from an ash tree | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 0b32c7a | The sun flashed off the wet blades, splinters of light, then the oars dipped, were tugged, and the beast-headed boats surged, and I stared entranced. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 44413a9 | It might have been a moment or an hour. To this day I do not know. I listen to my poets sing of age-old fights and I think no, it was not like that, and certainly that fight aboard Haesten's ship was nothing like the version my poets warble. It was not heroic and grand, and it was not a lord of war giving out death with unstoppable sword-skill. It was panic. It was abject fear. It was men shitting themselves with fright, men pissing, men bl.. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| c9f280b | Yule is supposed to be a celebration and a consolation, a moment of warm brightness in the heart of winter, a time to eat because you know that the lean times are coming when food will be scarce and ice locks the land, and a time to be happy and get drunk and behave irresponsibly and wake up the next morning wondering if you will ever feel well again, but the West Saxons handed the feast to the priests who made it as joyous as a funeral. I | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| a315dee | were | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 68a85c4 | Entendo que e possivel olhar nos olhos de alguem e de subito saber que a vida sera impossivel sem eles. Saber que a voz da pessoa pode fazer seu coracao falhar, e que a companhia dessa pessoa e tudo que sua felicidade pode desejar, e que a ausencia dela deixara sua alma solitaria, desolada e perdida. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 70347c1 | Trinity Royal, which was being nuzzled by a dozen small launches nosing into her flank like piglets suckling on a sow. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 4184566 | If we do nothing then Wessex will spread like a plague. There'll be priests everywhere." We seek the future. We stare into its fog and hope to see a landmark that will make sense of fate." | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 9b2b3ae | The spinners were watching me, waiting, needles poised, and unless I did their bidding then my fate would be failure. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| b25323a | all the Danish leaders, had carved into our shield wall with his great war ax, I had faced him, beaten him, and sent him to join the einherjar, that army of the dead who feast and swive in Odin's corpse hall. What | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| e881e8f | I do understand that you can look into someone's eyes,' I heard myself saying, 'and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them. Know that their voice can make your heart miss a beat and that their company is all your happiness can ever desire and that their absence will leave your soul alone, bereft and lost. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| fb358e5 | She looked at Stiorra and grinned, and I wondered whether that was what the two girls had in common: bad fathers. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 5d47190 | You'd do better to repair the fort walls,' I said. 'You think the Danes will come again, lord?' he asked nervously. 'The Danes always come again. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 88a8e87 | No man wanted to face warriors like Finan in battle. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| b43983e | It was fate, I thought. Just fate. We think we control our own lives, but the gods play with us like children playing with straw dolls. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 46605f7 | If my body is recovered, Colonel, pray have it sent back to Normandy. My companion, on the other hand, is from Boston, so you may allow his body to rot in whatever noxious swamp it comes to rest. Come on, boy! | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 3b9e24c | Entao Guinevere quebrou o juramento do matrimonio - disse Nimue. - Voce acha que ela foi a primeira? Ou acha que isso a torna uma prostituta? Nesse caso a Britania esta cheia de prostitutas ate a borda. Ela nao e prostituta, Derfel. Ela e uma mulher forte que nasceu com mente rapida e boa aparencia, e Artur amou a aparencia e nao quis usar a mente dela. Nao a deixou torna-lo rei, por isso ela se voltou para aquela religiao ridicula. E tudo .. | infidelidade | Bernard Cornwell | |
| fc76235 | He had pretended to be full of remorse, and shouted that remorse to the sky, "No more tits, God! No more tits! Keep me from tits!" and I remembered how Alfred had turned away in frustrated disgust. "Exanceaster," | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| c8e57a7 | Descobri em minha longa vida que a maioria dos homens da Igreja prega os meritos da pobreza enquanto corre atras da riqueza. Adoram dinheiro, e a Igreja atrai dinheiro como uma vela atrai mariposas. | igreja | Bernard Cornwell | |
| b3aeb77 | Quando a gente esta com problemas e util descobrir alguem que esteve na mesma dificuldade. | problemas | Bernard Cornwell | |
| db574d9 | You know your trouble? You think too much. I've never known a happy man who thought too much. Thinking just complicates affairs. Life's like jumping a bad fence on a good horse, the more responsibility you leave to the horse the safer you'll be, and the more you leave to life the happier you are. Worrying | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 10fb5d9 | I don't care if he's got a tail and tits, just take me to him." The" | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| e045b5b | Most folk consider that a woman aboard a ship brings nothing but bad luck because it provokes the jealousy of Ran, the goddess of the sea who will abide no rivals, | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 4ff41b1 | I know I have gained Christ and through His blessing I have gained the whole world too, but for what I have lost, for what we have all lost, there is no end to the reckoning. We lost everything. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 140a9f5 | And where are we going?' he asked. "to war,' I said grandly. 'We'll give the poets something to sing about. We'll wear their tongues out with singing! We're going to war, my friend,' I slapped Finan's shoulder, 'but right now I'm going to sleep. Keep the men busy, tell them they're going to be heroes!" | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 700c144 | Choose your battles,' I snarled at AEthelstan. 'That space between your ears was given so that you can think! If you just charge whenever you see an enemy you'll earn yourself an early grave.' Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg | cornwell saxon-stories warriors-of-the-storm | Bernard Cornwell | |
| fb50a73 | The sun shone on us, the water sparkled, the oar-blades dipped and we were gone. Gone to make history. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 193ad7e | Welsh kingdoms in some safety, and that thought was encouraging. Christians do like pilgrims, those pious folk who gaze at pig bones that pretend to be dead saints and then give money, lots of money, and there's hardly a church, monastery, or nunnery that does not have the eyelid of Saint John or the bellybutton of Saint Agatha or the pickled trotters of the Gadarene swine. Many such pilgrims are poor, yet the fools will give their last ben.. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 645affa | I had never thought it all through before, but suddenly, on that cold day, I understood that among the Danes I was as important as my friends, and without friends I was just another landless, masterless warrior. But among the Saxons I was another Saxon, and among the Saxons I did not need another man's generosity. "You" | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 59c2842 | The sight of that loveliness was enough to drive all sense from a man's head. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| c2f2f81 | You will tell him that Uhtred of Bebbanburg is in a mood to kill. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| ed43b88 | And we screamed. We screamed our war cry, our shout of slaughter, our joy of being men in battle who are driven by terror. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| c13a9fe | All you need to know, boy," Finan growled, "is that Lord Uhtred's side is the one that wins." | finan know need side uhtred win | Bernard Cornwell | |
| e3f0dcf | I was hated, and I knew it. Part of it was my fault, I am arrogant. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 4446538 | Besides, as I have never tired of telling my Christian followers, we pagans rarely persecute Christians. We believe there are many gods, so we accept another man's religion as his own affair, while Christians, who perversely insist that there is only one god, think it their duty to kill, maim, enslave, or revile anyone who disagrees. They tell me this is for our own good. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| e6fd09f | Anything that comes from the north is bad news. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 200dfa3 | These word-stringers make nothing, grow nothing, kill no enemies, catch no fish and raise no cattle. They just take silver in exchange for words, which are free anyway. It is a clever trick, but in truth they are about as much use as priests. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 6ce0a07 | There are times," Leofric grumbled, "when you are an earsling." An earsling was something that had dropped out of a creature's backside and was one of Leofric's favourite insults. We were friends." -- | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 10430e6 | The Tippoo should have killed you when he had the chance." "We all make mistakes, sir." | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 32d8166 | I've known women!" AEthelwold shouted at the rain, "and they were bad women! Forgive me!" Alfred was furious, but he could not stop a man making a fool of himself before God. Perhaps he thought AEthelwold's remorse was genuine? "I've lost count of the women!" AEthelwold shouted, then beat his fists in the mud. "Oh God, I love tits! God, I love naked women, God, forgive me for that!" The laughter spread, and every man must have remembered th.. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| a6cafff | The General knew he would probably die, for infantry took pleasure in killing cavalry and he would be the leading horseman in the attack on the bridge, but the General was a soldier and he had long learned that a soldier's real enemy is the fear of death. Beat that fear and victory was certain, and victory brought glory and fame and medals and money and, best of all, sweetest of all, most glorious and wondrous of all, the modest teasing gri.. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| e96e171 | Men and women used pliers to pull teeth from the dead and, for years after, false teeth were known as Waterloo Teeth. Some | Bernard Cornwell |