epub, mobi |eng | 1968-01-02 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

When Alexander heard the news he became frantic with anxiety that some ill might befall his mistress. He hastily collected the money, which was despatched at once. Then, trembling with ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1990-12-31 | 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 |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 | 1993-12-31 | Author:Thomas Cahill [Cahill, Thomas]

V A Solid World of Light Holy Ireland Patrick devoted the last thirty years of his life—from, roughly, his late forties to his late seventies—to his warrior children, that they ...

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, 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 | 2009-04-29 | Author:Hales, Dianne [Hales, Dianne]

“ARE YOU A MIMI OR A MUSETTA?” ASKS MAESTRO Mario Ruffini, a musicologist and composer in Florence, referring to the leading ladies—sweet-souled Mimi and coquettish Musetta—of Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème. ...

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

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-12 | Author:Dorothy Dunnett

Chapter 25 IT WAS NOT, however, the two equal swords of Katelina van Borselen that Nicholas found waiting for him on his return, at long last, to the capital. Before ...

mobi |eng | 2007-06-28 | Author:Dante Alighieri & Robin Kirkpatrick

where, turned towards us, Beatrice stood. ‘Make sure,’ they said, ‘you do not spare your eyes. 115 We’ve placed you here before these emeralds, from which Love aimed his arrows ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Marina Fiorato

27 Nicodemus of Padua was silent. He had heard the entire incredible tale and now sat, stroking the white stubble at his chin and occasionally grunting faintly, as if he ...

mobi | | 1999-10-15 | Author:John Milton;Burton Raffel

1 Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood 2 Praying, for from the mercy-seat 5752 above 3 Prevenient5753 grace descending had removed 4 The stony from their hearts, and made ...