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“The sight of her killed his joy. Well. He was not the only person with the right to risk his life, and he was…

— Kristin Cashore

“God forgive me, I was sorry to hear that Sir W Pens maid Betty was gone away yesterday, for I was in hopes to…

— Samuel Pepys

“The old lady whirled round, and snatched her skirts out of danger. The lad fled on the instant, scrambled up the high board-fence, and…

— Mark Twain

“Rising to her feet, she shot the Bird Man a furious glare, and then stormed off toward Savidlin's house. She was glad to be…

— Terry Goodkind

“She remembered a tale she had heard from Old Nan, about how sometimes during a long winter men who'd lived beyond their years would…

— George R.R. Martin

“Betty, who had found an old battered doll, was sitting quietly in the corner and industriously endeavoring to pick its one eye out”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

“A permanent dull ache spread from my belly to my chest. I thought I could feel pinpricks of loneliness in the pads of my…

— Susan Power

“Elizabeth waited until he had left and then promptly burst into laughter. She couldn’t help it, she had been soaked, threatened by a skunk,…

— Grace Willows

“some of it his wife’s. Her lithe body lay haphazardly on the floor by her husband’s feet. Her throat was open, the wound deep…

— Rob Sinclair

“No one could hear them over the carriage wheels, yet somehow it felt right to whisper. His eyes dropped to her gaping bodice. One…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

“One day on the plains he had an angry dispute with one of his wagon-drivers, and both drew their revolvers. But the driver was…

— Mark Twain

“She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and…

— Roman Payne