If a man has been possessed by devils for long enough they will rend him as they leave him, however imperatively they may have been cast out. Ernest did not stay long where he was, for he feared each moment that his father and mother would come out.

And for the moment, though he [Sweyn II of Denmark] escaped as usual to Baldwin [V, Count of Flanders]'s land and dwelt at Bruges, he was solemnly proclaimed a nithing or vile person (the most ignominious term in the Teutonic vocabulary) by the whole host, with the king, his brother-in-law, at their head.

Nella wished him luck and started to walk away, still unsure if that glint in his mouth was a grill or just a few golden teeth.

Close beside a tranquil pool, for the moonbeams melted harmoniously into its quiet depths, was an old tree.