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“He went through the bills with the jaundiced eye of a China trader, asking himself not whether he had been stolen from, but where the theft had occurred. If he couldn’t find it, that would suggest his factor back home in Shanghai was either cleverer or more honest than he had thought, and Crane didn’t think he was particularly honest.”

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“The Hawkhurst Gang was a pernicious set of ruffians – smugglers, you understand – that held a rule of terror over the countryside when your grandfather was a boy. They committed every sort of atrocity, and were so strong in numbers – how many men was it they were able to muster within an hour, Father?’‘I forget,’ returned his lordship shortly. ‘Five hundred,’ supplied Richmond. ‘And they used to have regular battles with rival gangs!”

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Book:The Unknow Ajax
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“…yet three acts were unanimously decided upon; first, to send all the women and children out of the village--next, to despatch a messenger to Woodchurch for military aid--and, next, to set about casting bullets immediately, as no shot larger than slugs were to be found in the place. The reader will probably ask, with a look of surprise, "Is this a scene in North America, where settlers were daily exposed to the incursions of the savages?"--and he may add, "This could not have happened in England!" But I beg to say, this happened in the county of Kent, less than a century ago; and persons are still living, who remember having been sent with the women and children out of the village, that the men might not be impeded by fear for those they loved, while defending the spot on which they were born.”

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Book:The Smuggler (Volumes I-III): A Tale
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“Tot ce putem şti, fără temerea de a fi dezmintiţo este că suntem purtătorii bogaţi ai unor excepţionale posibilităţi. Tot ce putem crede, fără de a săvârşi un atentat împotriva lucidităţii, este că ni s-a dat să luminăm cu floarea noastră de mâine un colt de pământ. Tot ce putem spera, fără de a ne lăsa manevraţi de iluzii, este mândria unor iniţiative spirituale, istorice, care să sară, din când în când, ca o scânteie şi asupra creştetelor altor popoare. Restul e - ursită.”

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“În limpezi depărtări aud din pieptul unui turn cum bate ca o inimă un clopot şi-n zvonuri dulci îmi pare că stropi de linişte îmi curg prin vine, nu de sânge. Gorunule din margine de codru, de ce mă-nvinge cu aripi moi atâta pace când zac în umbra ta şi mă dezmierzi cu frunza-ţi jucăuşă? O, cine ştie? - Poate că din trunchiul tău îmi vor ciopli nu peste mult sicriul, şi liniştea ce voi gusta-o între scândurile lui o simt pesemne de acum: o simt cum frunza ta mi-o picură în suflet - şi mut ascult cum creşte-n trupul tău sicriul, sicriul meu, cu fiecare clipă care trece, gorunule din margine de codru.”

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“It's just past eleven o'clock at night, so finally fully dark out, which means it's the perfect time to see the light installations in St. Andrew Square. As they cross the tram tracks and enter the square, Susan gasps, "Will you look at that?" The entire square is softly aglow from hundreds of spherical bulbs planted on stiff stems, like luminescent poppy seed heads. They cover every last inch of grass in the square, and the lights slowly change from white to blue, to green, and back to white, the change staggered by section, so the square seems alive with rippling bands of light, like a tiny aurora borealis come down to earth.”

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Book:All Stirred Up
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