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Название книги: Messiah Clears the Disc
Автор(ы): Henry Oldie
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Messiah-Clears-the-Disc-162737.html
Book OneDon't wake up the sleeping dragons
Part OneBranded hands
A tiger does not think when to draw its clawsBut its victim cannot escape them;A dragon does not think how to apply its forceBut the mountain cannot but be brokenFrom the Homilies of wise men
Chapter 1
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There was not less than a hundred of palace guards in the procession, all of them wearing silk festive hats with wing-like flaps and purple robes and girdles with carven horn plates, all of them bearing gongs and drums. Isn't it true that one can see the real grandeur from afar? It is especially so this time: for the brilliant wang Zhou, brother of the ruling Emperor, Son of Heaven Yong Le, returns once more to the apanage granted to him!Nevertheless, the crowded gapers were murmuring between themselves that the prince is a bit light-fingered and had been discharged of this very apanage for three times already because he used to commit "abuses" and to break openly the canons established by the Department of Works although
Название книги: Messiah Clears the Disc
Автор(ы): Henry Oldie
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Messiah-Clears-the-Disc-162737.html
Book OneDon't wake up the sleeping dragons
Part OneBranded hands
A tiger does not think when to draw its clawsBut its victim cannot escape them;A dragon does not think how to apply its forceBut the mountain cannot but be brokenFrom the Homilies of wise men
Chapter 1
1
There was not less than a hundred of palace guards in the procession, all of them wearing silk festive hats with wing-like flaps and purple robes and girdles with carven horn plates, all of them bearing gongs and drums. Isn't it true that one can see the real grandeur from afar? It is especially so this time: for the brilliant wang Zhou, brother of the ruling Emperor, Son of Heaven Yong Le, returns once more to the apanage granted to him!Nevertheless, the crowded gapers were murmuring between themselves that the prince is a bit light-fingered and had been discharged of this very apanage for three times already because he used to commit "abuses" and to break openly the canons established by the Department of Works although
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