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A cold wind blew off Hanging Dog Mountain and I had no fire, nor dared I strike so much as a spark that might betray my hiding place. Somewhere near, an enemy lurked, waiting. - Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett [1985] (ch. 1) Major Joe Makatozi stepped into the sunlight of a late afternoon. The first thing he must remember was the length of the days at this latitude. His eyes moved left and right. About three hundred yards long, a hundred yards wide, three guard towers to a side, two men in each. A mounted machine gun in each tower. Each man armed with a submachine gun. - Louis L'Amour, Last of the Breed [1986] (ch. 1) It was my devil's own temper that brought me to grief, my temper and a skill with weapons born of my father's teaching. - Louis L'Amour, Sackett s Land [1974] I sat very still, as befitted a small boy among strangers, staring wide-eyed into a world I did not know. I was six years old and my father was dying. Only last year I had lost my mother. - Louis L'Amour, The Lonesome Gods [1983] (ch. 1) Nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen. The daily recital of the Rosary was over. - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard [1960], (Archibald Colquhoun translation) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Ravenel Plantation occupies a singular rise of wooded land in North Carolina, between Way-Home River, Loon Mountain, and the Silver Fork. - Elinor Macartney Lane, Katrine [1909] (ch. 1) For two days, ever since Hank's death, she had been in a daze of numbness, held in a strange waiting on some inner knowledge. - Adria Locke Langley, A Lion Is in the Streets [1945] (ch. 1) Midge Kelly scored his first knockout when he was seventeen. The knockee was his brother Connie, three years his junior and a cripple. - Ring Lardner, Champion, a short story Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habits, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter now many skies have fallen. - David Herbert Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover [1928] "The Bottoms" succeed to "Hell Row." Hell Row was a block of thatched, bulging cottages that stood by the brook-side on Greenhill Lane. - David Herbert Lawrence, Sons and Lovers [1913] The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire. - David Herbert Lawrence, The Rainbow [1915] Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-day of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking. - David Herbert Lawrence, Women in Love [1920] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK It is not a pleasant epoch in one's life--the first forty-eight hours at a large public school. I have known strong-minded men of mature age confess that they never thought of it without a shiver. I don't count the home-sickness, which perhaps only affects, seriously, the most innocent debutants, but there are other thousand-and-one little annoyances which make up a great trouble. - George Alfred Lawrence, Guy Livingstone [1857] (ch. 1) When at last we anchored in Jeddah's outer harbour, off the white town hung between the blazing sky and its reflection in the mirage which swept and rolled over the wide lagoon, then the heat of Arabia came out like a drawn sword and struck us speechless. - Thomas Edward Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), Revolt in the Desert [1927] (ch. 1) Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven. By day the hot sun fermented us; and we were dizzied by the beating wind. At night we were stained by dew, and shamed into pettiness by the innumerable silences of stars. We were a self-centred army without parade or gesture, devoted to freedom, the second of man's creeds, a purpose so ravenous that it devoured all our strength, a hope so transcendent that our earlier ambitions faded in its glare. - Thomas Edward Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), Seven Pillars of Wisdom [1926] (ch. I) When the end came, it seemed to do so completely out of the blue, and it wasn't until long afterward that I was able to see that there was a chain of events leading up to it. - Mary Lawson, Crow Lake [2002] (ch. 1) My great-grandmother Morrison fixed a book rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while she was spinning, or so the story goes. - Mary Lawson, Crow Lake [2002] (prologue) In the small hours of a blustery October morning in a south Devon coastal town that seemed to have been deserted by its inhabitants, Magnus Pym got out of his elderly country taxicab and, having paid the driver and waited till he had left, struck out across the church square. - John Le Carre, A Perfect Spy [1986] Ten minutes to midnight: a pious Friday evening in May and a fine river mist lying in the market square. - John Le Carre, A Small Town in Germany [1968] Two seemingly unconnected events heralded the summons of Mr. George Miley from his dubious retirement. - John Le Carre, Smiley's People [1979] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Afterwards, in the dusty little corners where London's secret servants drink together, there was argument about where the Dolphin case history should really begin. - John Le Carre, The Honourable Schoolboy [1977] It was the Bad Godesberg incident that gave the proof, though the German authorities had no earthly means of knowing this. - John Le Carre, The Little Drummer Girl [1983] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Snow covered the airfield. - John Le Carre, The Looking Glass War [1965] In a broad Moscow street not two hundred yards from the Leningrad station, on the upper floor of an ornate and hideous hotel built by Stalin in the style known to Muscovites as Empire During the Plague, the British Council's first ever audio fair for the teaching of the English language and the spread of British culture was grinding to its excruciating end. - John Le Carre, The Russia House [1989] The American handed Leamas another cup of coffee and said, "Why don't you go back and sleep? We can ring you if he shows up." - John Le Carre, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold [1964] Displaying page 50 of 95 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 [50] 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95
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