I skumringen kom mannen hennes tilbake fra heiene. Det var en mager kjempe som tok ett skritt der andre dødelige trengte tre.
John BuchanBeklager så meget , sa han. Jeg er ikke helt meg selv i kveld. Saken er nemlig den at jeg er død i dette øyeblikk.
John BuchanJock put his shoulder to the framework and the whole thing crumbled inward with a crash of glass.
"Rotten as touch-wood," he said. "This place would never stand a siege.
How will you deal with him?" Belses asked.
Jock lifted a brawny fist and regarded it lovingly. "Knock him out-- truss him up-- whatever the Almighty permits us."
Supposing he's not alone?"
Oh, then, if his trusties are with him, there'll be a bonny rumpus.
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
John BuchanAn old woman with a mutch sat in an arm-chair behind the counter. She looked up at me over her spectacles and smiled, and I took to her on the instant. She had the kind of old wise face that God loves.
John BuchanWe can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John BuchanTags: future
I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.
John BuchanTags: men murder bravery fortitude loyalty knives richard-hannay
The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.
John BuchanTags: snob
It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.
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