The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A NovelSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 1. apr 2010 - 1024 pages Bestselling novelist Margaret George brings to life the glittering kingdom of Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, in this lush, sweeping, and richly detailed saga, the basis for the Cleopatra TV mini-series. |
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... sound of waves . I see , hear , feel them all still . I even taste the sting of the salt against my lips , where the fine , misty spray coats them . And closer even than that , the lulling , drowsy smell of my mother's skin by my nose ...
... sound like stamping . There was nothing about her to recall our ancestor , the delicate - featured Berenice II , who had reigned with Ptolemy III two hundred years earlier and passed into legend as a strong - willed beauty to whom court ...
... sound of a crowd - which was to become so familiar to me - assaulted my ears like a blow . The whole chamber was packed with people , so many people that I could only stop and stare at them . We - the royal family - were standing at the ...
... sound it had if you did not understand it . And I had not studied it . There was little to recommend it ; nothing important was written in it , and there were no famous speeches in it . Other languages , such as Hebrew , Syriac , and ...
... sound was not loud , such a deep hush fell over the entire hall that every note quavered on the air . Olympos turned and gave me a pitying look , but it was kind , not conde- scending . I wanted to shut my eyes and not have to behold ...
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