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| e48ba65 | Something was very wrong. It was all there, if she just reached for it. Raven believed that faraway voice, felt warmth and love enfold her in strong, protective arms. She knew that feeling, that voice. It wasn't quite right. Mikhail replayed the recent events in his mind for her. Raven inhaled, feeling as if someone had hit her square in the stomach. , he assured. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 96800b1 | Mikhail replayed the recent events in his mind for her. Raven inhaled, feeling as if someone had hit her square in the stomach. , he assured. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 2300949 | Leave-takings are stupid things, and best forgotten about as quickly as possible. | Nevil Shute | ||
| c82ea36 | Have you ever met Mikhail's friend Gregori?" "He's the one they call the dark one. I've seen him, of course, but only once. Mikhail has voiced his fears for him often." Raven's breath wheezed in and out, a harsh sound in the quiet of the cell. "He's a great healer, Father." She took another shuddering breath. "And he is loyal to Mikhail. Do you believe there is hope for their race?" The priest made the sign of the cross on her forehead, on .. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 6a5c834 | I tried to stop him, to warn him, but he will come." "Of course he will." Edgar's eyes were blinking in the sudden light. Father Hummer was worried about Raven. Her breath sounded strangled, labored, as if she were fighting for every breath, and she continually shook from the cold. The heavy door clanged and creaked as it swung open. James Slovensky peered at them. His eyes fastened on Raven's face as if drawn irresistibly. Her blue eyes me.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| f5aa255 | What's wrong with you?" he demanded. A faint, taunting smile curved her soft mouth. "I'm dying. I think that's plain enough even for you to see." | Christine Feehan | ||
| e27b875 | Grilled Yellowfin Tuna with a White Bean and Oregano Salad 6 ounces sushi-grade yellowfin tuna Salt Cracked black pepper 1/4 teaspoon crushed garlic 1/2 lemon, juice of 2 ounces olive oil 1/4 cup water 1 teaspoon fresh basil, chopped 1/2 tablespoon dried oregano 12 ounces cooked white beans 1 teaspoon parsley, chopped Season the tuna with the salt and pepper and grill each side for 30-45 seconds. Set aside to cool. Mix the garlic, lemon.. | Arthur Agatston | ||
| 49c148c | It was a gambler's action, but his whole life had probably been made up of gambles; it could hardly be otherwise in the outback. | inspirational life | Nevil Shute | |
| f86b7bb | He said, "The spring was good enough for their mothers and their grandmothers before them. They will get ideas above their station in life if they have a well." She" | Nevil Shute | ||
| ad9d592 | knots | Nevil Shute | ||
| 087b168 | halliard | Nevil Shute | ||
| db56e2e | Adventure | Nevil Shute | ||
| ae8020c | Round the next corner and in the next street Adventure lies in wait for you. Oh, who can tell what you may meet Round the next corner and in the next street! Could life be anything but sweet When all is hazardous and new? Round the next corner and in the next street Adventure lies in wait for you. That | Nevil Shute | ||
| 6b5fc52 | one has to make an effort at a time like that, and a clean break. It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 47d35f2 | Her ideas about reporters had been moulded by the cinema; it was a surprise to her to find that in real life they could be kind and helpful people with good manners. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 370ee15 | It was incongruous at Coombargana. In a great city such things happen now and then, where people are too strained and hurried to pay much attention to the griefs of others, but in a small rural community like ours, led by wise and tolerant people such as my father and mother, staffed by good types culled and weeded out over the years, such secret, catastrophic griefs do not occur. Troubles at Coombargana had always been small troubles in my.. | Nevil Shute | ||
| e8f004e | Into the world of romance, of make-belief and double brandies! | Nevil Shute | ||
| 8608223 | You felt to look at him that he would be wonderful upon a horse. I | Nevil Shute | ||
| 4ca27c9 | Throughout the autumn and the winter activity increased in the Beaulieu area, and with it came mysteries. Lepe House, the mansion at the entrance to the river, was taken over by the Navy and became full of secretive Naval officers; it became known that this was part of a mysterious Navel entity called 'Force J'. Near Lepe House and at the very mouth of the river a construction gang began work in full strength to make a hard, sloping concret.. | navy normandy | Nevil Shute | |
| 42588fe | So let them pass, small people of no great significance, caught up and swept together like dead leaves in the great whirlwind of the war. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 4335e31 | You did not die when you were drawing public assistance money, but you certainly did not remain alive. | Nevil Shute | ||
| a02d6f1 | Everything had come good at last, after so many years. I had reached the happy ending of the story, and I was quietly, serenely happy. In the soft, velvety darkness I lay utterly at peace for I had finished with all heartaches, with all pains and worries; nothing could touch me now. I had finished the book but I could take it up and read it over and over again, and I would do so, secure in the knowledge of the happiness in the last chapter. | Nevil Shute | ||
| a47335e | By 1948 I was safe on my feet and able to get about quite normally, but I was thirty-four and life was slipping past me. I could not face burial alive in Coombargana at that age after all that I had been and done during the war, and I began to feel I should go crazy if I didn't get away from it to England again, where things were happening. I think my parents understood, because they made no objection when I suggested that I should go back .. | Nevil Shute | ||
| ee99570 | I was very depressed in those months, because it's not funny to lose both your feet when you're thirty years old. | Nevil Shute | ||
| c98d5c8 | There are some things about oneself that it's not very nice to wake up to. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 566a200 | She said, "Aye, they're getting for him everything the heart of man could desire, saving the one thing." I asked, "What's that?" She said, "A wife." She's very shrewd." | Nevil Shute | ||
| d9bed90 | Before she had been a year at Ford Janet came to look forward to her next pass with something close to apprehension; it was pitiful to see her mother ageing and be unable to help her, to see her father turning into just another poor old man. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 56e2584 | I was at Geelong Grammar." The Eton of Australia meant nothing to her." | Nevil Shute | ||
| a1c3d31 | doubt if he'd have made the grade for the rabbit pack, though. He wasn't fierce enough; he was one of those bumbling, good humoured, rather incompetent dogs, good for a lonely man or girl to look after. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 6c496a8 | Most jobs are interesting when you are learning them,' I said. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 5034210 | I pointed out to her what sort of life she would be able to lead upon nine hundred a year. As an instance, I told her that she could have a country cottage in Devonshire and a little car, and a daily maid, and still have money to spare for a moderate amount of foreign travel. | Nevil Shute | ||
| cf0d74b | He could not elucidate it any further for her, and they drove on to the big hardware store. It had only a few customers, and very few assistants. They left the baby in the car and went through to the gardening department, and searched some time for an assistant | Nevil Shute | ||
| bb39a68 | It was her dog getting killed that put the lid on it," said Viola, seven years later. "Funny, that, wasn't it? She stood up quite well when your brother got killed and when her father got killed, but when the dog got killed it finished her. I suppose she felt responsible or something." "I suppose she did," I said. "What happened after" | Nevil Shute | ||
| ad24541 | You just said you couldn't stand Willstown,' he objected. 'Burketown and Croydon - well, they're just the same.' 'I know,' she said thoughtfully. 'I'm not being very reasonable, am I? First I say I couldn't stand living in a place like that, and then I say that you oughtn't to think of living anywhere else.' 'That's right.' He was puzzled and distressed. 'We've got to try and work it out some way to find what suits us both.' 'There's only o.. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 7cf8bcb | The ringer looked at the girl's bleeding face and at her bleeding feet. 'Leave her alone, you bloody mucking bastards,' he said angrily in his slow Queensland drawl. 'I stole those mucking chickens, and I gave them to her. So what?' Darkness was closing down in my London sitting-room, the early darkness of a stormy afternoon. The rain still beat upon the window. The girl sat staring into the fire, immersed in her sad memories. 'They crucifi.. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 6ef2839 | I had travelled the world and I had come to realise, in faint surprise, that I had seen no countryside that could compare in pastoral beauty with that of my own home. It takes a long time for an Australian to accept the fact that the wide, bustling, sophisticated world of the northern hemisphere cannot compare with his own land in certain ways; | Nevil Shute | ||
| 01f1d19 | I stopped reading and stared round the room. There were the new curtains, the new shades on all the lamps, the deep new pile of the Indian carpet beneath my feet, the new loose cover of the chair that I was sitting in, the slightly different appearance of the wallpaper by the electric switch, the gleam of the new paint. I had not noticed any of them. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 99fc3aa | They're terribly anxious to see him married, and they're always gossiping. And then Mrs. Plowden said, "He might do worse than look in his own kitchen, to my way of thinking." And Annie said, "Aye, that's a fact. It wouldn't be the first time that's happened, and it won't be the last." | Nevil Shute | ||
| e60790f | When things like this happen there's just nothing to be done about it; even suffering itself is a mere waste of time. | Nevil Shute | ||
| b70f55e | Even into this quiet place the war had reached like the tentacle of an octopus and had touched this girl and brought about her death. Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 5c7fc26 | A placard nailed upon a post, CHIEN MECHANT, warned him, but did not warn the children. The dog, an enormous brindled creature, leaped out at them to the limit of his chain, raising a terrific clamour. The children scattered back, | Nevil Shute | ||
| c4c12b1 | Americans are like that.' The other stared at him incredulously. 'It would cost a great deal of money to provide for a child, perhaps for years. One does not do that lightly for a foreign child of which one knows nothing.' 'It's just the sort of thing they do do,' said the old man. 'They would pour out their money in a cause like that. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 53720f0 | Tell us,' she said gently. 'Would you like to grow up with horses? Or would you rather buy things and sell them for a profit?' After all, she thought, it would be difficult for him to go against the characteristics of his race. 'Would you rather do that?' The boy looked up at her. 'I want to learn to shoot with a rifle from a very long way away,' he said, 'because you can do that from the hills when they are on the road. And I want to learn.. | Nevil Shute | ||
| db71059 | You can call a sunset by a filthy name, but you do not spoil its beauty, monsieur. | Nevil Shute |