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The air tasted like wonder. Like candied butterfly wings caught in sugared spiderwebs, and drunken peaches coated in luck.
Legendary
Stephanie Garber
The doge’s council, seeking to isolate returning voyagers from the Orient, had decided on the duration of forty days—quaranta giorni in Italian, from which the word quarantine is derived—by selecting the same period of time that Christ had sequestered himself in the wilderness.
Galileo's Daughter
Dava Sobel
Nov.15--Here again I must note a matter I do not understand I am much troubled in sleep. No definite image presented itself, but I was pursued by the very vivid impression that wet lips were whispering into my ear with great rapidity and emphasis for some time together.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2
M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
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