Quotes About Adventure

There's nothing here for ye! Nothing save danger." "Is there really nothing here for me?" I had asked. Too honorable to speak, he had answered nonetheless, and I had made my choice.

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Come on!" he said, grunting as he shifted the Chinaman's slippery form for a better grip. "They'll be after us any moment!

We camped for the night in a hollow near a good-sized creek—one big enough for trout. Jamie and Ian waded into this with enthusiasm, harrying the finny denizens with whippy rods cut from black willow.

You didn't say there was a stone circle," I said. I felt faint, and not only from the heat and damp.

The gate was shut, and he didn't bother fumbling for the latch but seized it with both hands and vaulted over, feeling an absurd rush of fierce pleasure in the feat.

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TWO DOWN," Roger whispered.

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Freedom and Whisky gang tegither.

So Jamie's gone off wi' your Lord John, the British army is after them, the tall lad I met on the stoop wi' steam comin' out of his ears is Jamie's son—well, of course he is; a blind man could see that—and the town's aboil wi' British soldiers. Is that it, then?

That's right," she said softly, watching. "It's not everyone can go through the stones, is it? Why us?

John felt the night as something wild creeping upon him, the force of spring itself rising from the ground into his feet, his legs, bursting through his body 'til the blood throbbed in his fingers, pulsed in his chest. Perhaps it was freedom, the exhilaration of their escape. Perhaps the excitement of a hunt by night, adventure and danger before them. Or the knowledge that he was an outlaw—with pursuit and danger certainly behind him.

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something to do with that.

Pfft," Fergus said, and pulled the cork. "In these times, there's little one can do that isn't dangerous. If I'm going to be killed for something, I should like it to be something that matters. If it's entertaining, so much the better.

strand of hair out of my eyes and turned the horse's head toward the upland trail, relieved to be headed

Don't be afraid of unimagined possibilities; imagine the possibilities and then imagine what you'll do about them.