Empire Of Ivory Quotes
"Send up another, damn you, send them all up, at once if you have to."
"Only keep everyone moving towards the shore."
"I cannot imagine the patrol will pursue us over land."
"The night was full of their wings: a dozen dragons turning their heads around to look back."
"I am trying; only they will keep stopping to fight."
"Fire!" he shouted, clear over the increasing rumble among the Prussians.
"They were very tasty," Temeraire said apologetically.
"I would as soon have kept it, myself," Temeraire muttered.
"If you do, I will otherwise be lacking for patients, which from the course of this disease will mean they are all dead."
"The sky was clear and cold and very blue, only a handful of terraced clouds running out to sea."
"I am sure they will fend for themselves," Tharkay said.
"It is some time since I was last in Britain, but I was tolerably familiar with the Court of Session, then."
"I am sure it must be glorious to travel by dragon, without any worry that you shall be sunk in a gale."
"What mother’s heart could bear it! Mine would break to pieces, I know."
"I am sure you must agree, that however much her heart should break, she would never ask her sons to be cowards, and hide behind her skirts."
"No; there’s no sense in it, you must see that."
"A comfortable wife she would make him, with orders to follow and a dragon to look after."
"We did not come here to find a cure only for ourselves."
"I will do much better sitting here in the cool shade than tearing back and forth."
"It is our Christian duty to make peace, if it can be done."
"What the devil would a person want with the nasty stuff?"
"My crew is the largest," Laurence said, "and we have eight rifles."
"Even so," Laurence said, and thankfully it seemed that their captors did not mean to set out again immediately.
"It was my name," Mrs. Erasmus said, her hands tight around her cup of dark red tea. "Lethabo. It was my name when I was a girl."
"No," she said, "no; there are many words I do not remember well, but I was taken with many others, and some of us were sold together also."
"You were taken as a thief, and a kidnapper, in our country; you will answer, or—"
"Having been taken prisoner, in what I must consider an act of war, I must refuse under these conditions to answer any questions whatsoever," Laurence said.
"Sutton said we would never find you, by roaming wild about the continent," Temeraire said.
"They needn’t all stare so; and I think they are great cowards for keeping me chained."
"It made very good sense at the time, but I did not quite realize, that anything would go wrong."
"And it makes eating a little difficult," he added bravely, "and water taste of rust, but it does not signify: are you sure you are well?"
"We agreed that first I should try, as I am big enough to carry you all; and then if anything should go wrong, they would still be loose."
"She has made us handholds," Catherine said softly.
"It is not his, sir, or not much," Emily said anxiously.
"I would not want your crew anyway; I have my own."
"I hope they will come and let me loose, first," Temeraire murmured.
"You sell these things to the Lunda," Moshueshue said, "and those also?"
"I am sorry to say, that there are too many engaged in the trade for me to know their names, or particulars," Laurence said awkwardly.
"Pray do not get distressed; you have been ill a week. He was here, but I am afraid they ran him off; I am sure he is quite well."
"We will be glad to ransom ourselves, if you would arrange a communication with our fellows at the Cape."
"I am, and very glad to see you," Laurence said, business-like.
"It was a little difficult to make them understand what we wanted, at first."
"Oh, it is nothing," Temeraire said, "nothing, now I see you again."