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We currently enjoy the hospitality of the local smith, a gentleman named Heughan.
~ Diana Gabaldon
A man should pay tribute to your body, he said softly... For you are beautiful, and that is your right.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Oh, foisted, is it? cried Mr. Ormiston in righteous indignation. Such a word! And if it means what I think it does, young man, you should get down on your knees and thank God for such foistingness!
~ Diana Gabaldon
How was yer first time, Jamie? Did ye bleed?" shouted Rupert
~ Diana Gabaldon
Aye, beg me for mercy, Sassenach. Ye shallna have it, though; not yet.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I suppose so." An oath was an oath, though I rather wondered if Hippocrates ever ran into this sort of situation himself. Possibly he did; the ancient Greeks were a violent lot, too. The
~ Diana Gabaldon
Quite suddenly she understood the impulse that caused men to engage in casual blasphemy.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I always thought there was some reason why 'Scot' rhymed with 'plot
~ Diana Gabaldon
Christ, was he going to die in public, in a pleasure garden, in the company of a sodomite spy dressed like a rooster?
~ Diana Gabaldon
A standing cock is quite blind, my dear," he said at last, eyes still shut. "Surely you know that, physician that you are.
~ Diana Gabaldon
It was a hound of some sort, black and disproportionately long-bodied, with lets so stumpy that they appeared to have been amputated. With large, liquid eyes and a sturdy long tail in constant motion, it resembled nothing so much as and exceedingly amiable sausage.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Oh, yes," I said. "My favorite was one I picked up from a Yank. Man named Williamson, from New York, I believe. He said it every time I changed his dressing." "What was it?" " 'Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ,' " I said, and dropped the sugar
~ Diana Gabaldon
the chill. Grant's nose was
~ Diana Gabaldon
Mmphm," I said, sounding self-consciously Scottish.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Besides," he added cynically, "a pair of ballocks may bring a man more sorrow than joy—though I havena met many who'd wish them gone, for all that.
~ Diana Gabaldon
yowled, and Mrs. Chisholm—who was a rather buxom
~ Diana Gabaldon
Roger was on the whole rather glad that her father was not present, since he would certainly have taken paternal umbrage at the sorts of thoughts Roger was thinking; thoughts
~ Diana Gabaldon
Wat's tes-tees?" inquired a small voice. Jemmy had abandoned his rocks and was looking up at me in profound interest. "Er Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â I said. I glanced round the room in search of aid. "That's Latin for your balls, lad," Roger said gravely, suppressing a grin.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Ian, your Latin would disgrace a dog! And as for the rest, ye havena got enough understanding of Greek to tell the difference between water and wine!" "If they're drinkin' it, it's not water
~ Diana Gabaldon
Jamie resumed his movements. "Well, if God made man in His own image, I should imagine He's got a cock." He started to laugh as well, losing his rhythm again. "Though ye dinna remind me much of the Blessed Virgin, Sassenach.
~ Diana Gabaldon
My hens?" he said, outrage bringing the blood to his face.
~ Diana Gabaldon
There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though I understood him clearly. "She may not kill, save it is for mercy or her life. It is myself who kills for her." "And I," said a tall figure behind him, softly. Ian. Arch
~ Diana Gabaldon
Stop it! It's too big! Take it out!
~ Diana Gabaldon
intended to repel Evil, which are the constant Accompaniment to their Conversations with myself.
~ Diana Gabaldon