Zoe and Theodora part 48
The enemy then worked round to their rear and wiped them out to a man, some by the sword, others with their spears. Actually...
Zoe and Theodora part 42
102. It happened that at that particular time there was a Macedonian colony living in the neighbourhood of the city. Prominent among them were...
Zoe and Theodora part 41
With old-fashioned arrogance she would find fault with most of his actions. She would find fresh causes for complaint and then, when she saw...
Zoe and Theodora part 40
At this stage I would like to describe a second revolt against the emperor, a revolt more terrible even than the first. Let me...
Zoe and Theodora part 39
97. Personally, I know of no power of divination possessed by the man. I attribute the phenomenon to an easy-going and carefree disposition. Men...
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...
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 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 12
Another thing that puzzled him greatly after a time and after many hundreds of inquiries was, when he no longer had any particular door-...
The Lost Phcebe part 11
For several years thereafter then he was an odd figure in the sun anti rain, on dusty roads and muddy ones, encountered occasionally in...
