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1 " The ground before the castle has grown a crop of armed men. "
― , Shakespeare Stories
2 " Tears, like bitter rivers, streamed down his dried-up cheeks, as he stood swaying in his brother's arms. "
3 " He was an old, old man, venerable as a mountain, and with much snow on top. "
4 " Though murdered kings, like all dead men, lie quiet and unoffending in the ground, they rot and spread contagion in men's minds. "
5 " The ground before the castle had grown a crop of armed men. "
6 " And yet he wondered, was it enough? It must be... there was nothing else. "
7 " Between the thinking and the doing of a deed, there was a line to be crossed. "
8 " He smiled happily, as his lover's wit, like his lover's eye, divined meanings unsupported by the evidence. "
9 " It was the wiser course, she thought, to deny the evidence of her senses, than her good sense. "
10 " So tremendously did he fight that he made killing almost holy... "
