After bathing, he sat on his bed and wished desperately that he could forget the night's illusion of tangled legs, palmable breasts, and husky laughs.

When the eyes of those who fish for eels are closed, the eyes of those who fish for the aua are open.

Signe did not hesitate to back up his words with like dissembling, and replied that it was natural that hands which dealt more in wounds than wools, and in battle than in tasks of the house should show the hardness that befitted their service; and that, unenfeebled with the pliable softness of women, they should not feel smooth to the touch of others.

Alexia […] fanned vigorously, so that she set all the feathers on her much-betrimmed hat into a violent flutter.