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Four beautiful maids
Were all in love with me.
They said that I could have but one
So I went off to sea.

— Alexander Knox The Enemy I Kill (1972)

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Surgery is speed and decision. A good surgeon saves his trembling till after he's killed the patient when it can do him no harm.

The Kidnapped Surgeon (1977)

Everything about the girl was like a round of yeasty dough. It cried out to be smoothed or pressed or moulded or lifted or patted or stroked or gathered up or folded.

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The high Arctic had more snow that year than anyone remembered.

Night of the White Bear (1971)

Infection...is like the wind, it bloweth where it listeth.

The Kidnapped Surgeon (1977)

There was no shame, but only graciousness, sun-soaked air, and, at the last, a peace such as the moss knows in the deepening corridors of trees.

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