1635: THE DREESON INCIDENT – Snippet 53

"I'm not sure," Pam Hardesty said, "that it would be so bad."

"What?" asked Missy Jenkins.

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THE GODS RETURN – Snippet 30

"Bravo!" cried Sharina as the trained rat spun end over end between the jugglers’ wooden batons as they crossed. "Oh, marvelous!"

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Chapter Fifteen

            "And this, Admiral Gold Peak, is Prime Minister Alquezar," Lady Dame Estelle Matsuko, Baroness Medusa, and Her Majesty Elizabeth III's Imperial Governor for the Talbott Quadrant, said. "Prime Minister, Countess Gold Peak."

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THE GODS RETURN – Snippet 29

Ilna lurched to her feet. The boat shifted with a scrunch of gravel, throwing her down again. This time her bruised right knee landed on the gunwale. The additional sharp pain on top of the battering she'd just taken made her dizzy, but she managed to catch herself before she tumbled onto the beach.

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1635: THE DREESON INCIDENT – Snippet 52

Chapter 25

Grantville

Pam Hardesty looked at the newspaper. Blinked, and looked again.

That's what it said, all right. Under the column headed MARRIAGES:

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STORM FROM THE SHADOWS – snippet 57:

            Shoupe stirred in her chair, and Khumalo glanced at her.

            "I know that expression, Loretta," he said. "I take it you disagree?"

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THE GODS RETURN – Snippet 28

"There's something out there, lad," said Carus. The ghost's hand caressed the memory of his sword hilt. "I can feel it."

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1635: THE DREESON INCIDENT – Snippet 51

"Way back when we – well, not me as a part of 'we' because I sure wasn't on the committee – but when the constitutional subcommittee of the Emergency Committee drew up the NUS constitution, back in 1631, Grantville wasn't setting up a parliament. Our constitution sets up a congress. It's turned into a state legislature for all practical purposes, now that we're a province of the USE, but we're still calling it 'congress' and it's still organized pretty much the same. With a 'house and senate' structure, except -"

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STORM FROM THE SHADOWS – snippet 56:

            "Is it really that bad, Sir?"

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Chapter 6

It seemed to Cashel that the moon was bigger than it ought to be, but this way it threw plenty of light on the sandy hills even though it was just in the first quarter. Liane's shadow stretched back toward him, and ahead of her Rasile's did also.

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