like a good Spaniard he needed words as much as he needed money, and the words he wanted had to be the most expansive and inflated available. In Spai… - James A. Michener

they swore there at the edge of the forest overlooking a gully that stood between them and the French troops in Le Cap: “We will defy Napoleon to the death! We will never again be slaves!” And from that day on, General Vaval, fighting alone, became a military hurricane

Certain Americans in western states, having lost their Indians and with few blacks at hand, naturally turned to hating Mexicans,

It was the Sea of Galilee, now known by its Latin name, Mare Tyberiadis, sunk in its deep depression among surrounding hills whose red and brown coloring played across the surface of the water, so that sometimes the lake was its own blue — a deep, pulsating blue of vivid quality which made the heart cry out with joy — while at other times it was red or brown or, where the trees were, green. But always its colors were in motion, a living, twisting kaleidoscope, as marvelous a body of water as there was on earth.