United States or Northern Mariana Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"And who counted them, that you know there were three hundred devils," asked the merchant Gamroth, intelligently. "The Litwin counted them, when he saw them entering the bladder. It was evident that they were there, because one would know it from the stench, and nobody wished to take out the peg to count them." "What wonders, what wonders!" exclaimed one of the nobles.
"Princess Anna Danuta," said one of the townsmen, "she is Kiejstutowna, Janusz Mazowiecki's wife. She was in Krakow two weeks, but she went to Zator to visit Prince Waclaw, and now she is coming back." "Uncle Gamroth," said the other townsman, "let us go to the barn and sleep on the hay; the company is too high for us."
"Friend Eyertreter, I am not interrupting; only I think that he also will be glad to know about what they are talking, because I am sure he is going to Krakow. We cannot return to the city to-day at any rate, because they will shut the gates." "And you speak twenty words, in reply to one. You are growing old, Uncle Gamroth!" "But I can carry a whole piece of wet broadcloth just the same."
Often before a battle a knight stoops, stretches his lance, and rushes alone against the whole army." "Christ!" exclaimed Gamroth. "And who among them are the best soldiers?" "It depends. With the crossbow, the best is the Englishman, who can pierce a suit of armor through and through, and at a hundred steps he will not miss a dove. For the big two-handed sword the German is the best.
"There is to be a great feast and great pleasure for the king and the queen! The king has ordered the queen's chamber to be upholstered with golden brocade, embroidered with pearls, and a canopy of the same material over her. There will be such entertainments and tournaments, as the world has never seen before." "Uncle Gamroth, don't interrupt the knight," said the second merchant.
Word Of The Day