The Chronicles of Narnia 1. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

“That is not the point,” he said. “But battles are ugly when women fight.

I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been—if you’ve been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you—you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing was ever going to happen again. At any rate that was how it felt to these two.

flung themselves upon

straining and tugging

grinning and leering

Horrors, Efreets, Sprites, Orknies, Wooses, and Ettins

steep slope out

Tell you what is written in letters deep as a spear is long on the firestones on the Secret Hill?

quite at their ease

rubbing the sweat off