"Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet."
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Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
The whole scene impressed Venters as a wild, austere, and mighty manifestation of nature. And as it somehow reminded him of his prospect in life, so it suddenly resembled the woman near him, only in her there were greater beauty and peril, a mystery more unsolvable, and something nameless that numbed his heart and dimmed his eye.
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Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
"Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself."
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Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey