“The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios of Algiers alone. I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn't allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation." "I had weasels instead," said Philippa shortly. "Good God," said Lymond, looking at her. "That explains a lot.” MenChildrenSaidChristianMotherThousandSittingEuropeBuiltRootsTwentiesSlaveJewCoastJungleRabbitsPalacesMen WomenGood GodUnshakableFixationWeaselsMoorsRenegades Author:Dorothy Dunnett
“And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets.” MenHundredArmyTwentiesSouthEightHillsSheepSteelHelmetOver The HillWheeling Author:Dorothy Dunnett
“But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.” MenHandsFateMinesBrokenTwentiesAcceptedDespised Book:The Game Of Kings: The Lymond Chronicles Book One Source: The Game Of Kings: The Lymond Chronicles Book One
