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  1. Naomi Novik _ League of Dragons

    I have been speaking with Dyhern a great deal on the subject of dueling," Temeraire said, "and it seems plain to me that something must be done. You must give me your word, Laurence, that if anyone ever should insult you again, they must be told at once that I will insist on being your second myself. I am very much indebted to Mr. Hammond for having killed that wretched fellow, but in future, if anyone likes to prove they are not a coward by insulting you, they may fight me, and then they cannot complain of not having had satisfaction: I am sure everyone will agree they were brave, once they are dead.
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  2. Naomi Novik _ Uprooted

    Don't stand there like a cretin," he said. "Take it.
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  3. Naomi Novik _ Uprooted

    Fire wouldn't burn he; blade wouldn't cut her, no matter how long we hacked away.
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  4. Naomi Novik _ Uprooted

    In short, he tried to teach me as best he could, and to advise me in my blundering through my new forest, though it was foreign country to him. He did still resent my success, not from jealousy but as a matter of principle: it offended his sense of the proper order of things that my slapdash workings did work, and he scowled as much when I was doing well as when I had made some evident mistake.
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  5. Naomi Novik _ Black Powder War

    {Temeraire:} "Can one hire a translator to say things properly?""Yes; they are called lawyers," Tharkay said, and laughed softly to himself.
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  6. Naomi Novik _ Uprooted

    My head ached worst of all, some part of me tethered back to the valley, stretched out of recognizable shape and trying to make sense of myself when I was so far from anything I knew.
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  7. Naomi Novik _ Black Powder War

    He says to land," Tharkay translated, with improbable brevity; at Laurence's frowning look he added, "and he calls us a great many impolite names; do you wish them all translated?
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  8. Naomi Novik _ Uprooted

    I knew myself for the first time in a week, standing on earth instead of polished marble.
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  9. Naomi Novik _ Spinning Silver

    Angry, I think. I didn't remember ever being angry before. Anger had always seemed pointless to me, a dog circling after its own tail.
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  10. Naomi Novik _ Uprooted

    After a moment, he said, in almost marveling tones, "Are you deranged?
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  11. Naomi Novik _ Tongues of Serpents

    I don't like to be coarse, but if I did, I would be!-Granby commenting on something Rankin has said.
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  12. Naomi Novik _ Uprooted

    Those the walkers carried into the Wood were less lucky. We didn't know what happened to them, but they came back out sometimes, corrupted in the worst way: smiling and cheerful, unharmed. They seemed almost themselves to anyone who didn't know them well, and you might spend half a day talking with one of them and never realize anything was wrong, until you found yourself taking up a knife and cutting off your own hand, putting out your own eyes, your own tongue, while they kept talking all the while, smiling, horrible. And then they would take the knife and go inside your hpuse, to your children, while you lay outside blind and choking and helpless even to scream. If someone we loved was taken by the walkers, the only thing we knew to hope for them was death, and it could only be a hope.
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