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‘I can’t promise anything. All I can say is that we’ll try and compromise between what’s right and what’s best.’

During the first and second centuries CE the sacred enclosure at Uley acquired a solid timber shrine at its centre – square in form, like so many other contemporary ceremonial monuments identified in Britain and on the Continent. Subsequently a square stone temple, of considerable grandeur, directly replaced its predecessor on the hill top, eventua

“And you don’t allow for feelings, then?” She interrupted me, saying that I didn’t understand. I said that I understood very well. I asked her if she didn’t make any allowances, even for love. “What does that have to do with it?” she objected. “Do you think what you have is love? This poverty, this exhausting yourself, this giving up everything, th

I’m loving this chase, every second of it. I don’t give a damn whether that means I’m a bad person. But I know if we actually catch what we’re hunting, it’s probably gonna rip our faces off.

treaty signed in approximately 1225 BC between Tudhaliya IV, king of the Hittites, and Shaushgamuwa, his brother-in-law by marriage. Shaushgamuwa was the king of Amurru, who controlled the coastal regions of northern Syria that provided potential access to the Assyrian lands.

When in 1575 Dorothy Clevely, a London wife of dubious morals, told her maid Judith to wash her feet and put out a clean smock as she might have to share a bed with some gentlewoman who would be ‘loath to lie with her if her feet were foul and her smock not clean’, she was expressing common sensibilities.

She had never heard him say a foolish thing, though she knew that he did unwise ones; and perhaps foolish sayings were more objectionable to her than any of Mr Farebrother’s unwise doings.

The great kings of the otherworld called out my crimes each in turn, and at the very end the king with the round crown said: You are guilty of abandoning your starving kinsmen. Even if you spend the rest of your life offering food and reciting sutras to the spirits of these dead, you will never wash away your sin! The ten kings called out their jud

Anyway, I touched off his creaky laugh by quoting him one of my favorite lines from King Solomon’s Mines: ‘Two things I have learned: you can’t keep a Zulu from battle, or a sailor from falling in love.’ ” Orso looks at Shay incredulously. “I can’t believe you, of all people, read that racist stuff.” “Orso, when I was a kid I was crazy about Rider