1. To have a stomach and lack meat; to have meat and lack a stomach; to lie in bed and cannot 25. The six headstrong brothers of the Council That Was Seven had respected Andre, who was an adult when the You'll be treated well among the Immortals for the Katie had stabilized Rhyn, allowed the half-demon to use his power and join the He's a half-demon. adjective [usu ADJ n] You can use well-earned to indicate that you think something is deserved, usually because the person who gets it has been working very hard. as if the Though it is now dark, the wind still blows and roars in the wood, the waves still dash, and some creatures lull the Her dark eyes fixed on Carmen, eagerly waiting for the Infected children were removed to hospitals and the Hundreds of thousands of cases were still, of course, in the What an inexpressible joy it will be to read about Achilles, and Ulysses, and Andromache and Athene, and the My furniture, part of which I made myself--and the The little princess during the whole discussion and the In contrast with the dread felt by the infantrymen placed in support, here in the battery where a small number of men busy at their work were separated from the "I know," Alex said, "but you need to go home and get some You'd better stay in out of the weather... and get some After their conversation, she leaned back in the chair to get some Why don't you ride up here with me for a while and give your horse a The big bay was breathing hard when they stopped to People should get married because they want to spend the It began with a glance as we passed each other the first time, a smile the next two or three laps, and then a pretend Betsy and Martha, now practically best friends, conspired together against the Finally we spotted a large chain store and upon entering, detected a bank of telephones near the We're trying to come to grips with our day to day problems like the Would he surmise you're as limited by the dark as the I'll miss her so as she missed her mother whom I was forced to lay to As big a pain Quinn is at times, I know he's as committed as the After some negotiations Martha was allowed to remain in bed while the Molly remained enthralled with the baby and paid no attention to what the "The saga continues," she added as she fluffed the sofa pillows and directed me to She agreed it was Julie's place to tell Howie about the letter she sent and how it impacted the More depressing news filled the paper; a drive-by shooting in Dorchester, a knifing at a Boston bus stop and a baby abandoned in a I'd passed over the story of an abandoned infant in a Logan Airport We got lucky and pulled a single finger print from the And your brother may not thank you when he realizes he must live with the reality that he killed an innocent for the He rubbed it, vexed, and spotted one zombie-vamp moving slower than the She wrapped her arms around her knees and closed her eyes for a brief We can blow half the place up and send in a team to finish off the If you let anything happen to her, I swear to the Original Beings I'll haunt you from the grave for the Come with me for just a moment, and I'll leave you to the Yully slept fitfully and awoke before dawn, unable to You've always thought yourself soooo much better than the His gaze swept around the room methodically, coming to She closed her eyes, body on fire as she drank from him while imagining what his mouth could do to the While she couldn't shake the sense of doom that followed her from the visions, she felt more normal, less afraid, at the thought that she'd be rejoining the You know that's the only reason you're not locked in your room for the He took her hand in his and leaned forward, allowing his forehead to The consuming need to drink from him swept through her mind, dulling the Petite, white, pointed fangs extended from her upper gums to Silly David Dean for thinking more time might be needed to put all these pesky details to With the DNA you could tell whose finger it was, if you happened to have the They washed away their disappointment with cold beer and dove into the Alice was a geranium Cynthia had lovingly rescued from certain death by frost last September when the Before you start following the poor woman like in a James Bond movie, maybe we should give the entire Dawkins clan a After all, he'd abdicated all Bird Song's weekend chores in favor of his flesh-pressing tour, and Cynthia deserved a When Dean returned to Bird Song, it was mid-morning, but if he expected a quiet empty building with the Dawkinses at the courthouse and the He hadn't wanted to believe one of his sons betrayed the She finished everything and returned to her bedroom, going through the Uneasy, he also realized he had to focus on mopping up the A gem bubbled to the top of the lake then dropped down, rejoining the Ten demons guarded this one, two of which he'd slaughtered before leaving his dealers to handle the He might never wake up, and if he did, he might be a vegetable the Maybe this new Alex was the one she would spend the The sense of calm settling inside her was unnatural, like the You're welcome for convincing Gabe not to knock down the You have no idea how much of a difference that made to me and probably to the If he was half the man they believed him to be – and if she was half as bad as these two related to her – he'd resent her for the Gabriel stripped out of his pants and pulled on the new ones before striding back to the pile of the "Perhaps, if you promise him not to drink it except with me, he'll spare the Aside from the birth certificate, there was no way the She'd be lucky to walk again soon, and without medical supplies…with her luck lately, she wouldn't die from infection, just suffer for the She rolled her eyes and retreated to her bunk, hoping Sasha planned to give her time to She'd cried herself senseless before falling into a sleep too heavy to bring her any real Whatever Daniela said to him after she fled worked, and Katie didn't see him for the The assassin left him in peace, and he stayed awake the He preferred this idea, except that it would mean he.d be defending her from Dark One.s minions and demons every minute of the Kris was crushed, and Rhyn wasn.t sure how his eldest surviving brother hadn.t expected the Katie paced her corner of the gymnasium, where she had been herded with the She was a plant by the Dark One who lured you and probably the Snow fell from the sky to be either burned by the pyre or to cover the red mess that was the Agonizing over how much time Rhyn had, she finally reached the water-soaked sand and sucked in ragged breaths as she knelt for a moment of She was meant to stay here, to marry one of Romas's brothers, and to be miserable the He would take her to a planet with larger tarantula-cats, where she would be trapped in some room like this for the Her days were long but peaceful, wrought with duty and "Nishani, if you'll let me go," Mansr said, "I'll take you somewhere to Likely, but Ne'Rin would have killed you all without a second thought, as his father did the More pictographs were carved in the rim, and she circled the fountain twice before finding what she thought was the beginning, marked by pictures larger than the His tone didn't change, as if she'd just told him she was going shopping instead of sacrificing the When she found none, she returned to the living room, where the Dean thought of a few more snappy comebacks but kept the While Dean felt sorry for the distressed woman, he continued to hope his deaAnd I'd accept whatever the consequences were and never be the same for the From what I hear, one ex-guest doesn't have any more welfare and the welfare of the Alice was a geranium Cynthia had lovingly rescued from certain death by frost last September when the That produced a laugh from both of them and put the question to He never allowed anyone but Sarah to see that side of him, and she often felt sorry for his inability to let the She had given up years ago trying to convince him to let the When they had finished dinner and were having port back in the drawing room, Jackson asked, "Now that you've seen Sarah's shoe closet, would you like to see the I know Jackson can't drink it, but you two can, and save the After dinner Elisabeth asked Jackson to show her mother the Once they had settled on October 12th for the wedding, and decided to use the same caterer they used for the Halloween gala, Elisabeth suggested they give it a I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself, but if you think I want to spend the His gaze traveled around the faces at the table and came to The attention shifted back where it belonged and stayed there for the When dinner was over, Alex escorted her out the door, leaving the I'll release the locks, if you promise to take only what you need and not sell the We'll have a few seconds to blast the door without affecting the Lana stepped out of the doorway as he approached, assuming he meant to ignore her and head to the bedroom to The weight of those secrets robbed her of her appetite and made her feel tired again, even after a full night of She placed it on the ground and watched Jack wolf down the The soldier led them up a set of stairs winding around smaller buildings and into a building apart from the Kris and his mate, Hannah – Rhyn's other buffer – weren't about to live the I'm going to circle back to see what might be there.