so-enemies

Updated: May 27, 2025

For thirteen years now he had ruled, striving with some success to put some virtue and stability into the rotting Empire, but raising many fierce enemies as he did so-enemies whom he had not the strength nor the wit to hold in check. And Giant Maximin what of him? He had carried his eight feet of manhood through the lowlands of Scotland, and the passes of the Grampians.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Last Galley : Impressions and Tales