"The Three-Eyed King has long awaited this moment, the hour of which his destiny is at last unveiled. He leads an army of madness and rage, against which no sane being would willingly stand. Perhaps I am not sane, as I will fight one last time. Not for v
"Three things make the Empire great; faith, steel, and gunpowder." —Emperor Magnus the Pious[2w] The Empire, formally known as the Empire of Man[14a][15][20] or the Sacred Empire[17b], and named the "Land of the Hammer and the Wolf" by the Norscans,[17a
I considered the matter a moment, and then up stairs we went, and I was ushered into a small room, cold as a clam, and furnished, sure enough, with a prodigious bed, almost big enough indeed for any four harpooneers to sleep abreast. “There,” said the landlord, placing the candle...
produced, ‘as a bricklayer lays bricks.’ In the final scene of the novel, Humprey Quain realises that the French rioters see him as a representative of the press, part of the political-corporate nexus that is ruining their way of life. This...
LOSE YOURSELF IN THE PRODIGIOUS MOUNT QAF Discover a cursed Persian-inspired world filled with larger-than-life landmarks and explore a variety of highly detailed biomes, each with their own identity, wonder, and danger. LIVE AN EPIC ADVENTURE Immerse yourself in a Persian mythological ...
A. Wylie's prodigious account of Christianity's remonstrance against the errors of the Church of Rome. The index will assist you in finding the location of KEY words in the text, so that you may research Wylie's library without the time and difficulty of reading every single book. "These...
I returned to the magician’s hovel and demanded the return of my barley and, moreover, that he find another way of cleansing the ponds. I seized him by the neck as I spoke, emphasizing my great seriousness by plucking several of the amulets from his flesh. The magician howled and told...
This done, I went downstairs to the sitting-room, in which I expected to find Laura and Marian awaiting my return from the Opera. I felt my hand trembling for the first time when I laid it on the lock of the door. No one was in the room but Marian. She was reading, and s...
(But what prodigious mowing did we make.)Love likes a gander, and adores a goose: Her full lips pursed, the errant note to seize; She played it quick, she played it light and loose; My eyes, they dazzled at her flowing knees; ...
Now, Moses is a hero figure in his ascent of the mountain, his meeting with Yahweh on the summit of the mountain, and coming back with the rules for the formation of a whole new society. That’s the hero act. Departure, fulfillment, return. And on the way there are adventu...