“Mistress of the Indies, Spain swarmed with beggars. Yet, verging to decay, she had an ominous and appalling strength. Her condition was that of an athletic man penetrated with disease, which had not yet unstrung the thews and sinews formed in his days of vigor.”
Pt. I, Ch. 2
Pioneers of France in the New World (1865)
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“She had not yet decided whether to use her power for good… or for evil.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. LI
Gabby Holland, Chapter 13, p. 168
2000s, The Choice (2007)
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 17, “Bonfire Night” (p. 540).
Travis Parker, Chapter 22, p. 258-259
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)
Source: Way Station (1963), Ch. 11
Context: There was so much knowledge in the galaxy and he knew so little of it, understood so little of the little that he knew.
There were men on Earth who could make sense of it. Men who would give anything short of their very lives to know the little that he knew, and could put it all to use.
Out among the stars lay a massive body of knowledge, some of it an extension of what mankind knew, some of it concerning matters which Man had not yet suspected, and used in ways and for purposes that Man had not as yet imagined. And never might imagine, if left on his own.
