Buck staggered over against the sled, exhausted, sobbing for breath, helpless. This was Spitz’s opportunity. He sprang upon Buck, and twice his teeth sank into his unresisting foe and ripped and tore the flesh to the bone.
Year: 2020
The Story of Joan of Arc by Andrew Lang
THE end of the year of the Maid was at hand. She had often said that she would last but a year, or little more, counting from May 1429.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Chichi always agreed gleefully while Dona Elena was raising her eyes to heaven, as though silently calling upon somebody hidden in the ceiling to bear witness to such errors and blasphemies.