Packer Throme, determined to demonstrate that power comes only from above, leads his people in a war against the dreaded Drammune.
His left shoulder was grotesque in its angle, disfigured with the injury, and his back slammed into and scraped along the barnacles attached to the dead-work of the hull. Then his lifeless body banged up the ... They'd seen this before.
The artillerymen were quite accustomed to firing charges without shot and, if powder was short, pantomiming the entire process. So these drills had gone off pretty much without a hitch. But none of that appeased Dog's simmering sense of ...
Small swatches of the stuff was all they'd ever been able to manage. ... lines held taut to keep the ships close, and with sounding poles held by crewmen of both ships, pushing against the opposite hull to keep the ships at a distance.
The sailor admired the handiwork in spite of himself, the firmness of the wrap, the quick, careful frap that drew it tight, the easy, firm double half-hitch over his right fist to secure the end. Here was a man who knew his business.
With profound bearing on the most consequential events of our time, Holland ties the exciting story of Islam's ascent to the crises and controversies of the present.
dominion from God gave him dominion or government over the kosmos, that is, the world order. ... If you think this is a vast, far away thing, something too much beyond your grasp, let me say to you that this applies to the weakest child ...