Buffy: Xander, how do you feel about digging through some of Giles’ personal files and seeing what you can find?
Xander: I feel pretty good about it. Does that make me a sociopath? Nah.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 2: Episode 8 – “The Dark Age”
The Spanish bowman was about to hook on when Stephen, speaking a Scandinavian but instantly comprehensible Spanish, called out, ‘Have you a surgeon that understands the plague aboard your ship?’
The bowman lowered his hook. The officer said, ‘Why?’
‘Some of our men were taken poorly at Algiers, and we are afraid. We cannot tell what it is.’
‘Back water,’ said the Spanish officer to his men. ‘Where did you say you had touched?’
‘Algiers, Alger, Argel: it was there the men went ashore. Pray what is the plague like? Swellings? Buboes? Will you come and look at them? Pray, sir, take this rope.’
‘Back water,’ said the officer again. ‘And they went ashore at Algiers?’
‘Yes. Will you send your surgeon?’
‘No. Poor people, God and His Mother preserve you.’
‘May we come for medicines? Pray let me come into your boat.’
‘No,’ said the officer, crossing himself. ‘No, no. Keep off, or we shall fire into you. Keep out to sea — the sea will cure them. God be with you, poor people. And a happy voyage to you.’ He could be seen ordering the bowman to throw the boathook into the sea, and the launch pulled back fast to the bright-red xebec.
They were within very easy hailing distance now, and a voice from the frigate called out some words in Danish; Pram replied; and then a tall thin figure on the quarter-deck, obviously the captain, asked, had they seen an English sloop-of-war, a brig?
‘No,’ they said; and as the vessels began to draw away from one another Jack whispered, ‘Ask her name.’
‘Cacafuego,’ came the answer over the widening lane of sea. ‘A happy voyage.’
‘A happy voyage to you.’
Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brian
Benjamin Sisko: Ah, that must be Quark with the necklace.
Kasidy Yates: The necklace?
Benjamin Sisko: Just in case the flowers didn’t work.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 7: Episode 20 – “The Changing Face of Evil”
When Ron offered the sword, however, Harry shook his head.
“No, you should do it.”
“Me?” said Ron, looking shocked. “Why?”
“Because you got the sword out of the pool. I think it’s supposed to be you.”
He was not being kind or generous. As certainly as he had known that the doe was benign, he knew that Ron had to be the one to wield the sword. Dumbledore had at least taught Harry something about certain kinds of magic, of the incalculable power of certain acts.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
Jenny: Oh! Thank you so much for loaning me the Forrester book. It’s wonderful!
Giles: Well, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Jenny: Yeah, it was so romantic, so evocative.
Giles: That edition was my father’s. I, I, I must’ve read it… twenty times.
Jenny: Yeah, y’know how you have to, to dog-ear your favorite pages so you can go back to them?
Giles: Uh, uh, uh, what?
Jenny: Well, I mean, I-I practically had to fold back every single page. So finally I just, I just started underlining all the pages I really wanted to discuss.
Giles: U-u-underlined…?
Jenny: But then, of course, I spilled coffee all over it, I can’t even read it…
Giles: It’s a first edition!
Jenny: I’m lying, Rupert. The book’s fine. I just love to see you squirm.
Giles: Yes, well, I, uh… trust I gave good… squirm.
Jenny: Did anyone ever tell you you’re kind of a fuddy-duddy?
Giles: Nobody ever seems to tell me anything else.
Jenny: Did anyone ever tell you you’re kind of a sexy fuddy-duddy?
Giles: Well, no. Actually that, that part usually gets left out. I c-can’t imagine why.
Jenny: This weekend.
Giles: Would you like to go out?
Jenny: Mm, no, I think I’d like to stay in.
Giles: Uh, this, Saturday, then.
Jenny: Saturday night. I’ll see if I can make you squirm.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 2: Episode 8 – “The Dark Age”
‘Back the foretopsail slowly, Mr Marshall,’ murmured Jack, ‘and keep the hands to the braces.’ He murmured, for he knew very well that the frigate’s officers had their glasses trained on the quarter-deck, and a persuasive fallacy assured him that the glasses would magnify his voice as well.
Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brian
