Saksagan
Zoe and Theodora part 54
128. The symptoms of disease were not all immediately apparent. The humours first flowed into his feet, and at once he was compelled to...
Zoe and Theodora part 55
130. Even while I write this history I am still absolutely amazed to think how the man was able to bear the excruciating pain...
The Lost Phcebe part 13
That particular lull that comes in the systole-diastole of this earthly ball at two o`clock in the morning invariably aroused him, and though he...
The Lost Phcebe part 14
Moonlight and shadows combined to give it a strange form and a stranger reality, this fluttering of bog-fire or dancing of wandering fireflies. Was...
The Lost Phcebe part 2
The orchard to the east of the house was full of gnarled old apple- trees, worm-eaten as to trunks and branches, and fully ornamented...
Zoe and Theodora part 38
Our men, meanwhile, engaged them with stones from above and fought them off with their cutlasses. Greek fire, too, was hurled at them, and...
Zoe and Theodora part 59
140. At first the emperor treated the man with indifference. In fact, he only appeared at court every now and then after the ceremony...
Zoe and Theodora part 58
He put him in chains at once, and on the next day he himself sat as judge at the trial — a very stern...
Zoe and Theodora part 57
135. There was a fellow in my time, a filthy barbarian scoundrel who far outdid the Romans in arrogance and was so brazen that...
Zoe and Theodora part 56
If one took the liberty of rebuking him for this laxity, Constantine was not vexed about it, but he dismissed the reproach as unnecessary....
