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“Within an hour, I had gone from anguish at the thought of losing him in Scotland, to a strong desire to bed him in…

— Diana Gabaldon

“At the negotiations in Irvine, it became clear to me that there was no side I could stand on. The English despise me and…

— Robyn Young

“Fletch took his wife’s arm. 'We aren’t going to turn anyone out into the cold and dark, are we, Poppy?' She looked up at…

— Eloisa James

“Disdainful of fur and fretful, privately, about the cost of his buttons, Jerott Blyth sat like the born horseman he was, and watched discreetly…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“(Dr. Swift, as bitter as ever, had observed that the history of the Stuarts in their northern lands had been that the king had…

— Joseph T Major

Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had…

— Samuel Johnson

“Hastings sat down and braced his arm along the back of the chaise, quite effectively letting it be known he did not want anyone…

— Sherry Thomas

“It had not been a very cheerful journey, not the least for the western excursion into Outlander territory, where a stubborn and pompous old…

— Robin McKinley

“Quite possibly, in those days, when his temper was more liable to explode into a spot of boots and fists, he might have helped…

— Terry Pratchett

“It was universally held among the drones that Lord Maccon had a particularly fine physique, and there had been quite the scuffle over who…

— Gail Carriger

“That's richt. When we were campaignin' wi' Marlborough oor lads had mony time to sleep wi' the canon dirlin' aboot them. Ye get us'd…

— Neil Munro

“The time for argument was over: Foucault wanted to crush an enemy, even though he claimed he loathed this kind of attack, in one…

— Benoît Peeters