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Tongues of Serpents (Temeraire 6.) 7 csillagozás
Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon’s invasion of England, Temeraire and Capt. Will Laurence have been transported to a prison colony in distant Australia—and into a hornet’s nest of fresh complications. The colony is in turmoil after the overthrow of military governor William Bligh—aka Captain Bligh, late of HMS Bounty. And when Bligh tries to enlist them in his bid to regain office, the dragon and his captain are caught in the middle of a political power struggle. Their only chance to escape the fray is accepting a mission to blaze a route through the forbidding Blue Mountains and into the interior of Australia. But the theft of a precious dragon egg turns their expedition into a desperate recovery operation—leading to a shocking discovery and a dangerous new complication in the global war between Britain and Napoleon.
Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2010
Kedvencelte 1
Most olvassa 2
Várólistára tette 6
Kívánságlistára tette 7
Kiemelt értékelések
Érdekes volt ugyan, de a végétől eltekintve most nem lett kihozva a legtöbb a történetből.
Kissé erőltetettnek éreztem.
Népszerű idézetek
For Consolation, if you should find yourself overcome with Passion and happen to accidentally drop Rankin down a Cliff, of by some Mischance run him through, at least I will not hear of it for as long, and anyway you are already transported, which I must call a great Convenience for Murder.
3. fejezet
Though Tharkay was nit his, precisely, Temeraire had grown used enough to his company to feel a sense of some responsibility, a degree of justified interest; and Tharkay could not in the least prefer to ride upon Iskierka, who was exceedingly hot and damp in her person, and so unreilable.
“Caesar,” Rankin said, “put me up.”
“Temeraire,” Laurence said, “you will not permit him to go aloft, if you please. Sir,” he said to Rankin, “the event has run past you: you will not turn your beast against a crowd of civilians. God knows there has been enough of that in this war: I will not see it done again.”
Rankin’s face went very pale with anger, and his hand clenched upon the straps of his carabiners, which he held ready. “Mr. Laurence, if you should dare interfere—”
“I do,” Laurence said flatly, and whatever Rankin might have said foundered: there was no threat he could offer.
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Jia Zhen began the event with a toast delivered in Chinese, of which Laurence understood enough to blush still more for his audacity, and which Temeraire unfortunately saw fit to comment upon in perfectly audible whispers, 'the generosity of Heaven in bestowing upon our humble outpost the presence of the most noble Celestial Lung Tien Xiang and the emperor's son Lao-ren-tze: that is a particularly nice turn of phrase, Laurence, the generosity of Heaven in bestowing, do you not think?
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„…Only I thought perhaps you might miss the war.”
„The war? No,” Laurence said. „To be of use, yes, but there is no sense in thinking of it; I am very sorry, my dear, but I hold out no hope for a pardon.”
„But I am sure we need not be useless here,” Temeraire said. „We have found our valley, after all.”
„It would be something, indeed,” Laurence said, „to build for once, instead of tear away; yes.”
11. fejezet
“Have Temeraire throw him [Captain Blight] overboard,” Tharkay had suggested laconically, when Laurence had escaped to his quarters for a little relief and piquet, despite the nearly stifling heat belowdecks: the open window let in only a still-hotter breeze. “He can fish him out again after,” he added, as an afterthought
Chapter 2
Privately, Temeraire was forced to admit that Laurence was unreasonably deadly on the subject of superstition, even though it did not make any sense, as he was equally firm on the subject of the Holy Spirit; Temeraire did not see how one could deny other spirits, when you had allowed one.
Chapter 7
I do not see much use in just a basket of jewels,' Temeraire said later, in private, drinking a bowl of light fragrant tea prescribed for its cooling properties. 'If one had them strung, on gold wire perhaps, there might be something to admire; one cannot wear a basket. At least, not without looking silly.
14. fejezet
“In my opinion it is quite rude to come into someone’s residence only to stare at them, and turn pale, and go, as if there were something peculiar in them, and not in such absurd behavior. I do not know why you bothered to climb the hill at all, if you are such a great coward; it is not as though you did not know that I was here.”
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