Bernard Cornwell Quotes

The First Sound Was The Bowstrings, The Snap Of Five Thousand Hemp Cords Being Tightened By Stressed Yew, And That Sound Was Like The Devil's Harpstrings Being Plucked. Then There Was The Arrow Sound, The Sigh Of Air Over Feathers, But Multiplied, So That It Was Like The Rushing Of A Wind. That Sound Diminished As Two Clouds Of Arrows, Thick As Any Flock Of Starlings, Climbed Into The Gray Sky. Hook, Reaching For Another Broadhead, Marveled At The Sight Of Five Thousand Arrows In Two Sky-shadowing Groups. The Two Storms Seemed To Hover For A Heart's Beat At The Height Of Their Trajectory, And Then The Missiles Fell. It Was Saint Crispin's Day In Picardy. For An Instant There Was Silence. Then The Arrows Struck. It Was The Sound Of Steel On Steel. A Clatter, Like Satan's Hailstorm.

Related Authors

• Bridget Moynahan
• Dante Carlisle
• Denis The Carthusian
• Dennis Allen
• Ian Kerner
• John Van De Kamp
• Kathleen Gasperini
• Mary Case
• Matthew Skelton
• Michael McCafferty
• Saeed Malik
• Sonia Cunningham Leverette

Related Topics

• Quotes About Fan Clubs

  Getting a gay fan base is slow. I think if I were able to reach more gay people they would love it. I can't get the songs in their ears. — Mary Gauthier

• Quotes About Lifelong Goals

  Summary of the Rich Habits Promises: I WILL form good daily habits and follow these good daily habits each and every day. I WILL set goals for each day, for — Thomas C. Corley

• Complacency Enemy Quotes

  I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy. — Trent Reznor

• Hardest Working Man Quotes

  James Brown had many guises, many names: Crip, Music Box, The Hardest Working Man In Show Business, Mr. Please Please Please, Butane James, Soul Brother Number One, Skates, The Godfather — R.J. Smith

• Once A Princess Movie Quotes

  I always dreamed of being a voice in a Disney movie, and even in those dreams, I never once dreamed of being a princess. I just wanted to be a — Anika Noni Rose