The Devils of Loudun, by Aldous Huxley
> Sir Edward Coke, the greatest English lawyer of the late Elizabethan and Jacobean age, defined a witch as "a person who has conference with »
Martin Chuzzlewit, by Charles Dickens
> Martin indeed was dangerously ill; very near his death. He lay in that state many days, during which time Mark’s poor friends, regardless of »
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
> Outdoors, we knew, was the real terror of life. The threat of being outdoors surfaced frequently in those days. Every possibility of excess was curtailed »
The Cloud of Unknowing
> This work asketh no long time or it be once truly done, as some men ween; for it is the shortest work of all that »
The Midwife's Apprentice, by Karen Cushman
> When animal droppings and garbage and spoiled straw are piled up in a great heap, the rotting and moiling give forth heat. Usually no one »