Historical Chronicles Pillows

Jean de Joinville

For his next book, he would write an epic novel of the sea.

A Hole in the Dike

'I think I'll stay in and try to catch up on my reading.'

"I thought you were out front telling the fence company how to do their job."

'I try and humour him...it's the only exercise he gets!'

"Ol' Boy... where the devil is Behan?"

Putin sawing NATO

'Your Majesty, the peasants are out of bread', 'Then let them eat low-carb stuff,'

"....After ten o'clock is quiet time on board for the comfort of our passengers."

Musical party at a private victorian house.

Lady Liberty: Give me your sick.

"Some women to see you, Anne."

Two Soldiers and a Navvy.

Martin is much gratified by an imposing ceremony

Second Anglo-Afghan War- Parliament Recalled

Anthony Trollope

Lunch break.

"...Fox hunting on a Tuesday; witch hunting on a Thursday!"

Friendly behaviour of Mr. Bucket

"Well, then why don't the British just borrow Major Eliot from the Herald Tribune."

"Where should we hold this confrontation then?"

"Back in my day, 'Call of Duty' wasn't a game."

"Actually, the attraction wasn't freedom from religious persecution but, rather, the all-you-can-eat buffet."

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times—Hey! I'm taking to you! It was the best of times..."

Frontispiece to the second volume of 'Master Humphrey's Clock'

"My one man play is now in the west end. I play Lee Harvey Oswald."

'When I was your age we had to carry our water from the spring in a bucket...and then we'd get it out with a dipper!'

Queen Ranavola of Madagascar executed any of her subjects who appeared in her dreams....

My child-wife's old companion

President 'Andy' Johnson Completes his Term of Office

Four Seasons Total Landscaping

'...gone! The remains of the iceberg that sank the Titanic, to...'

For God's sake, Ann...stop living in the past!

Sooner or Later