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“My love has placed her little hand With noble faith in mine, And vowed that wedlock's sacred band Our nature shall entwine. My love has sworn, with sealing kiss, With me to live -- to die; I have at last my nameless bliss: As I love -- loved am I!”

Littles Hands Lasts Dies Mines Band Kissing Sacred Noble Bliss Nameless Wedlock Little Hands

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.”

Fields Discipline Band Sacred Excellence Jealousy Elites Peril Guilds

Book:Beyond Sanctuary

Source: Beyond Sanctuary

“Time to unite the Sacred Bands, Thebans and his people: one unit, one heart, one swing through life.”

People Heart War Time Band Determination Sacred Loyalty Swings Units

Book:The Sacred Band

Source: The Sacred Band

“Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he and Niko had wanted to save twenty-three pairs of fated Theban fighters. Now everything feels fated and fighting oversweeps its boundaries of time and place and plane.”

Feels Trying War Wanted Time Fighting Three Destiny Band Twenties Sacred Caught Boundaries Fighter Planes Pairs Caught Up Ethos Whirlwind Devising

Book:The Sacred Band

Source: The Sacred Band

“And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future, but not theirs: paired cavalry fighters; formed ranks of armored death; grim men on their tall horses with lightning limning weapons tailored to the task; men spoiling for a fight if the gods allowed - the Sacred Band of Stepsons, out from shadows and the dark.”

Ifs Men Death Fighting Dark White Sky Battle Band Conflict Weapons Glory Shadow Commitment Tasks Horse Sacred Fighter Tall Lightning Grim Tailored Cavalry Stepsons

Book:The Sacred Band

Source: The Sacred Band

“Honorable battle sustains a Sacred Band.”

Belief Battle Band Commitment Sacred Honorable

Book:The Sacred Band

Source: The Sacred Band

“These warriors of the Sacred Band were inscrutable; they loved their war and death and picking through the bones of time to sort out right from wrong, good from bad, holy from profane, honor from dishonor.”

Love War Honor Holy Band Sacred Bones Warrior Profane Dishonor Inscrutable War And Death

Author:Janet Morris

“In this new world, this day and forever, then, we are not only Thebans - we are all Stepsons. We are all one Sacred Band. If you will have us. And mine will fight by yours, henceforth, as brothers.”

Ifs World Fighting Forever Mines Brother Band Sacred This Day Brotherhood New World Stepsons

Book:The Sacred Band

Source: The Sacred Band

“Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly upon us. We are the Sacred Band of Thebes. We fight in the forefront, therefore we bleed first. We live, therefore we die.”

Ifs Firsts Looks God Dies Fighting Asks Walks Band Harmony Angry Sacred Loyalty

Book:The Sacred Band

Source: The Sacred Band