epub |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

IT WAS AFTERNOON before I saw Frances. She had not appeared, so I sent for her. I was alone when I received her. She looked frightened. I said: “Come and ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1954-01-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

FOLLOWING THAT, there were disputes and arguments between Thomas and Will. In these Will waxed hot, and Thomas was always calm, which meant that Will must come out the worse ...

epub |eng | 1983-01-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

THE SPY When I went to see my mother she was in a state of panic. She had faced the fury of the people of her own country so was ...

epub |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

The tiring day was over. Lucrezia’s women clustered about her to help her undress. They removed the mulberry and gold gown and the jeweled headdress; they combed the long golden ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

Later, when the rest have gone, Dorset and I share a flask of hippocras before the dying fire. “I know what people say about me,” I muse. “That I am ...

epub, pdf | | | Author:William Shakespeare

* * * SCENE II. Another part of the wood. [Enter OBERON.] OBERON I wonder if Titania be awak'd; Then, what it was that next came in her eye, Which ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-03-14 | Author:Michel de Montaigne [Montaigne, Michel de]

epub |eng | 2010-11-29 | Author:Anne Rice [Rice, Anne]

CHAPTER NINE I STOPPED. I FOUND MYSELF IN A NARROW MUDDY LANE, overcome with the stench of the filth flowing into the gutters. I thought again of trying to reach ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Charles Nicholl

In his deposition at the Court of Requests Wilkins gives his age as ‘36 years or thereabouts’, but in another deposition two years later he says he is about forty. ...

epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Kathleen Krull [Krull, Kathleen]

CHAPTER EIGHT The Fabulous Notebooks AT THE TIME Leonardo’s mules were schlepping the notebooks around Italy, the pages were valuable only to their author. Today they are among the most ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Milton, John & William Kerrigan & John Rumrich & Stephen M. Fallon [Milton, John]

5. temperate vapors bland: soothing and perfectly proportioned vapors. Sleep, it was believed, was caused by vapors arising in the stomach. Adam’s benign internal system is here perfectly blended with ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2004-06-30 | Author:Kierkegaard, Soren [Kierkegaard, Soren]

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2003-04-24 | Author:Boethius

‘Whoever deeply searches out the truth And will not be decoyed down false by-ways, Shall turn unto himself his inward gaze, Shall bring his wandering thoughts in circle home (5) ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2001-08-02 | Author:Dante Alighieri & John Ciardi

But it was fitting that to the broken stone that guards the bridge, Florence should offer a victim to mark the last day’s peace she has ever known. With such ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2002-04-08 | Author:Evelyn Waugh