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“ Philippa drew a deep breath. ‘Mr. Blythe says you can read people’s thoughts,’ she said. ‘So why ask me?’
‘So that you may ask yourself. What a silly question,’ said the Dame de Doubtance.
Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett, p. 27
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“ Joleta Reid Malett of the apricot hair was then just sixteen. Lord Culter never knew what she wore. The robe fell from childish white wrists, hazy with freckles, and veiled all her small bones from neck to floor. Above and over it, smooth as silk floss, the shining apricot hair fell back from the matt skin, flushed and speckled with sun. He saw her white teeth, exposed unconsciously like a child’s below the soft upper lip, and her eyes, white-lashed aquamarine, filling her face. Then, because he was near suffocation, Richard Crawford, insufflating mournfully, refilled his lungs. Flushing, he caught de Villegagnon’s eye, and then found it in him to smile. He was staid, intelligent, and not overlong married to a ravishing wife; but Joleta Malett would always stop your breath for a moment, unless you were blind.
The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett
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“ Philippa said, to the scandalization of priest and secretary and charge d’affaires, “I think I’d like to get drunk.
Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett, p. 544
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“ Blurred by the abrasive seas and disfigured with molluscs, a grey, once-marble cupid lay in her palms, its wings honeycombed, its eyes hollow and vacant. Her own, staring at it, had lost all remembrance of herself: her breathless young eagerness was something Jerott remembered once in Francis Crawford, before the years of disenchantment ground it away.
Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett, p. 21
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“ The woman sitting there, straight and still on the bright velvet cushions, was not young; nor was she less than beautiful. The black hair, loose and shining, and deep, fell back over her shoulder and forward down to her waist; her chin was high above the pure line of her neck, which you could have held in one hand. Her eyebrows were black, and arched in pride, or surprise, or over some deep, long-held thought; and below the black, silky lashes, the wide eyes were packed full of straw.
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“ A long time afterwards, she was to remember what an excellent chess-player Francis Crawford was. And that, whether romance existed in him or not, sentimentality had no place at all.
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“ Not to every young girl is it given to enter the harem of the Sultan of Turkey and return to her homeland a virgin.
Ringed Castle by Dorothy Dunnett
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“ But her own kiss was warm and loving, and she held him lightly, so that he breathed in her natural freshness, her costly scents and her human harmlessness.
Queens Play by Dorothy Dunnett, p. 168
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“ Both men were fair, but he thought that nothing in life could ever approach the matchless purity of the young face, its fine bones upturned to the sky, the heavy lids closed, the soft lips parted a little, as if desiring to speak.
Gemini by Dorothy Dunnett, p. 503
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“ Together, they had engendered a form of articulate and genderless lunacy which he did not allow himself to dwell upon now, for it could not have continued, if only because it put her under too much strain.
Gemini, by Dorothy Dunnett, pp. 409-410
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