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** Nicci likes to remind people that she's ''Death's Mistress''. Named by friends and foes alike.

* In Väinö Linna's war novel ''Tuntematon Sotilas'', Lieutenant Koskela, who usually behaves in a very correct and prudent way, yells while drunk: ''Koskela Suomesta! Syö rautaa ja paskantaa kettinkiä!" (Koskela from Finland! Eats iron and shits out chain!)

* [[Sharpe]] manages a good one in ''Sharpe's Rifles''.

{{quote|"Father Alzaga said," Louisa astonished the room by raising her voice, and by her evident knowledge of Spanish which she had concealed till this moment, "that this night he will pray for the soul of the Tippoo Sultan, because the Tippoo Sultan slew many Englishmen."

* In ''[[Treasure Island]]'', Jim Hawkins, caught by the pirates and facing death, delivers one.

{{quote|"Let the worst come to the worst, it's little I care. I've seen too many die since I fell in with you. But there's a thing or two I have to tell you," I said, and by this time I was quite excited; "and the first is this: here you are, in a bad way--ship lost, treasure lost, men lost, your whole business gone to wreck; and if you want to know who did it--it was I! I was in the apple barrel the night we sighted land, and I heard you, John, and you, Dick Johnson, and Hands, who is now at the bottom of the sea, and told every word you said before the hour was out. And as for the schooner, it was I who cut her cable, and it was I that killed the men you had aboard of her, and it was I who brought her where you'll never see her more, not one of you. The laugh's on my side; I've had the top of this business from the first; I no more fear you than I fear a fly."}}

* from the otherwise obscure ''The Ring of the Slave Prince'' comes a great line which basically summarizes the book and have the bonus of being completely true:

{{quote|“I am Tom O’Connor, Grandson of [[Pirate Girl|Grainne Grainne Ne Mhaille.]] I am wanted all over the Caribbean because I kill and I set fires, I free slaves and I steal horses, they have tried to [[No One Should Survive That|drown me, shoot me, stab me, hang me, I have been whipped, robbed rolled, and keelhauled.]] They have taken my [[Perpetual Poverty|last penny]], [[Weapon of Choice|my best knife]] and one of my fingers, but Tom O’Connor is [[Made of Iron|still standing!]]”}}

{{quote|"What can you show us, you caged freak? I am [[Deal with the Devil|Sinner]], and I have known the secrets of the Pit."<br />

"I am Pretty Poison, a [[Horny Devils|demon of the Inferno]]."<br />

"And I'm [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|John Taylor]], and you wouldn't believe the shit I've seen. So [[Bring It|bring it on]]." }}

* In ''[[A Dirty Job]]'', a [[Never Mess with Granny|little old Chinese lady]] gives the main character a ''look'' when he snatches an eggplant away from her. Gods alone know what she was really thinking, but here's what our hero got from that look:

{{quote|"It hath been my duty in times past to ease various evil men of their lives."}}

* Skeeter Jackson, of [[Time Scout]], finds himself fighting for his life in the Roman Arena against a favorite who's one 100+ matches. An odd thought makes him laugh, startling the Roman, so he pushes his advantage by breaking into a Mongolian war song.

{{quote|"I saw my parents burn to death. I saw my cats burn to death. Do you know the sound a cat makes when it burns? I watched and could do nothing. Do you know where to stab a man, to bring death now, or death in a minute, or death in an hour? I do. Lingering death? Two or three days of pain? I can give that too. Ha! Death the Transition? We're old friends!"}}

** Then there are Locke's, when {{spoiler|Calo, Galdo, and Bug are killed and their home destroyed}}:

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