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You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.
Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable.
They were of many types of seals, all bearing the insignia of the King.
Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description.
I love stand-up comics, particularly those who have embraced podcasting.
Ah, Ivy, thought Alexia happily, spreading a verbal fog wherever she goes.
Oh, dear me, no. Then I should be known as that vampire with all the cats.
It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery.
To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.
She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks.
My petal. Westminster’s toy had tea issues. Thank Biffy and Lyall. Toodle pip. A.
These things, regrettably, are bound to occur when one is married and befriended.
I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.
Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.
I do not giggle without purpose. Lady Linette says you should never misapply a giggle.
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.
The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.
I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.
The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.
Alexia,” she hissed to her friend, “there are knees positively everywhere. What do I do?
There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.
No, Lord Maccon was riproaring, tumble down, without a doubt, pickled beyond the gherkin.
A woman, even a married woman, cannot float without proper escort. It is simply not done.
All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.
Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.
They decided the mummy would be unwrapped, for the titillation of the ladies, just after dinner.
Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.
She was no closer to determining who might want her dead. There were just too many possibilities.
You do realise modern social mores exist for a reason?" "I was hungry, allowances should be made.
I may be a werewolf and Scottish, but despite what you may have read about both, we are not cads!
Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.
South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.
No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.
Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.
It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.
To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.
I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.
The important question is, what will your wear for a wedding dress, Alexia? You look horrible in white.
At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.
When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.
These feelings you engender in me, my lord, are most indelicate. You should stop causing them immediately.
There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.
Really, Sophronia, it makes me most uncomfortable how you manage to sort everything out every time I faint.
How was I to know idiocy was only a temporary condition, especially in your case? It never has been before!
Rail is such an undignified way to travel. All that rapid racing about. Floating has so much more gravitas.
Lord Maccon was built like a brick outhouse, with opinions twice as unmoving and often equally full of crap.
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.