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“If Helene was with child, either Basile Auger had astonishing ejaculatory capabilities, impregnating her from halfway around the world, or she’d lain with another…

— Meljean Brook

“Andre had been telling her an ancient legend of the fall of man into evil. It came about, he said, by the hand of…

— Pearl S. Buck

“So many lessons she had refused to learn because they had been taught to her by her mother. She recalled Bienvenida's claim that the…

— Loida Maritza Perez

“There, too, she would sit for hours gazing seawards. No tiniest speck of sail that crossed the waters could escape her watchful eyes, and…

— Emilia Francis Strong Dilke

“But it is meet I should, in the true spirit of romantic story, give some account of the looks and equipments of my hero…

— Washington Irving

“Seven hundred years ago, Tersa had told [Daemon] the living myth was coming. Seven hundred years of waiting, watching, searching, hoping. Seven hundred heartbreaking,…

— Anne Bishop

“All he knew was that. magically, both of them were naked and Marianna was bestowing upon him the kind of headlong wantonness that he'd…

— Richard Matheson

In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the…

— Libba Bray

“She also stirred a sort of envy in him by telling him that during the Two Minutes Hate her great difficulty was to avoid…

— George Orwell

“He found her seated on her veranda steps, picking grass seeds out of a pair of old khaki army socks. About sixty, with the…

— Garry Disher

Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and gen'rous shame, Th' unconquerable mind, and freedom's holy flame.

— Thomas Gray

“There were many beautiful vipers in those days and she was one of them. ("Eveline's Visitant")”

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon