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- He waved at his attendants. "I dragged them like a ball and chain all the way across the palace and back." "If sterner measures are…
- Your Majesty, you just-" Costis stopped. "Just what?" the king prompted wickedly. Nothing would induce Costis to say out loud that the king had almost…
- The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust by my uncle…
- The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view.…
- No," he said. "Relius was right and I was wrong. You are My Queen. Even though you cut my head from my shoulders, with my…
- You have to believe him, because he's going to have your entire palace up in arms and your court in chaos and every member of…
- He should have said something, why hadn't he? Costis wondered. In fact, the king had. He had complained at every step all the way across…
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- I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could… — Josephine Baker
- Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times… — Ansel Adams
- Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed… — John Berger
- The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. — William Blake
- Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most… — Julie Burchill
- Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies. — Madeleine Albright
- One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge. — Mark Twain
- God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not… — Thomas Brooks
- You cannot make a cheap palace. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the… — Francis Bacon
- Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The mob that hounded Christ from Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" has never been dispersed, but is augmenting yet, as… — Thomas De Witt Talmage