1. For has it not always been my lot in life to be kissed of fortune
and to gather great store, and then of a sudden to lose it all as I was
to lose that rich multitude of fishes? pg. 21
2. When I go forth, my armies, who still look on me as half a god,
shout their welcome and kiss the air after their heathen fashion. pg. 21
3. Throwing her arms about me she kissed me thrice, on either cheek
and on the lips, doubtless because she was overwrought, and in her thankfulness
forgot her maidenly reserve, though as William Bull said afterwards, this
forgetfulness did not cause her to kiss him who had also helped her up
the hill. pg. 42
4. Those kisses were like wine to me, for it is strange how, if we
love her, by the decree of Nature the touch of a beautiful woman's lips,
felt for the first time, affects us in our youth. pg. 41
5. Now my young blood being awakened, I was minded to return those
kisses, and began to do so with a Jews interest, when I heard a rough voice
swearing many strange oaths, and heard also the other women who had sheltered
with us in the cave begin to titter, for the moment forgetting all their
private woes, as those of their sex will do when there is kissing in the
wind. pg. 41
6. Take those lips of yours from her, fellow, or I’ll cut them from
your chops.” pg. 41
7. …while her kisses seemed still to burn upon my lips. pg. 47
8. …with a swift movement laid her fingers against her lips and threw
a kiss to me. pg. 52
9. I could not mistake the meaning of this signaled kiss. pg. 52
10. But now on the wings of that blown kiss thither she had flown back
again, not to befrighted out for many a day. pg. 52
11. Yet beware of pretty women, Nephew, and I pray you kiss not those
as you did the lady Blanche Aleys at Hastings, lest it should upset my
household and turn servants into mistresses.” pg. 57.
12. He seemed bewildered also and very weak, yet I think he understood
that I was playing a friends part to him, for he bowed towards me in a
stately, courteous way and kissed the air thrice, but what this meant at
the time I did not know. pg. 69
13. It was as though the nature in her know that touch again, as by
some instinct every woman does, if once the toucher’s lips have been near
her own, though it be long ago. pg. 81
14. Of one thing only she said nothing—the kisses with which we had
parted. pg. 89
15. I saved you and we kissed and were parted. pg. 96
16. Here I welcomed my wife as best I could, kissing her as she crossed
the threshold and saying certain sweet words that I had prepared, to which
she smiled and answer. pg. 100
17. At length with a kiss I tore myself away, for I could bide no longer
and the horses were waiting presently. pg. 102
18. Here, while they hung back, he advanced when he went upon his knees
and laid his hands upon my steel-clad feet. pg. 124
19. On the deck of this ship Blanche herself had stood and smiled and
talked, for once we visited it together shortly before our marriage, and
I remembered how I had kissed her in its cabin. pg. 130
20. …also Kari clinging to the reeds of the balsa at my side, and from
time to time kissing the golden image of Pachacamac which hung about his
neck. pg. 137
21. She did more, indeed—in my dream—for lifting that tress of fragrant
hair, she let it fall like thistledown across my face and mouth, and then
kissed the hair, for I felt her breath reach me through its strands. pg.
143
22. When I heard this, making no answer, I swept her into my arms and
kissed her, and there she lay upon my breast and kissed me back. pg. 165
23. Indeed, now I learned for the first time how high a princess she
was, since when her litter passed, these folk prostrated themselves, kissing
the air and the dust. pg. 170
24. “So I knelt and kissed the hand of the King, my father, and left
him, wondering at his nobleness who could show such a road to his only
child, though its treading would mean woe to him and mayhap the ruin of
his hopes. pg. 175
25. Then what matters anything, even if we are slain? Farewell, beloved,
kiss me and farewell.” pg. 178
26. Whilst I though thus, lost in a rapture such as I had not felt
since Blanche kissed me at the mouth of the Hastings cave after I had killed
the three Frenchmen with as many arrows from my black bow, I heard a sound
and looked up to see a man standing before me. pg. 178
27. Then before I could answer, Kari took my hand and touched it with
his lips. Another moment and I had lost sight of him in the shadows. pg.
181
28. “Lord and Lover,” she said, “I go to what fate I know not, leaving
you to what fate I know not, and as your lips have said, it is right that
I should go.” pg. 198
29. Well, now again I trust to my god,” and round his neck, he kissed
it, then turning, bowed and prayed to the Sun. pg. 237
30. Then sobbing and muttering she threw her arms about him and kissed.
Nor did he shame to kiss her in return, there before them all. pg. 241
31. Then he [Upanqui] kissed him on the brow and Kari knelt down and
did his father homage. pg. 241
32. Moreover, I have noticed that they seldom learn wisdom, and that
what they have done before, they are ready to do again, who believe anything
that soft lips swear to them. pg. 244
33. Then he [Kari] stood up on his throne and bowed towards me, kissing
the air as though to a god, and taking the royal chain that every Inca
wore from about his neck, set it upon mind. pg. 265
34. Says Larico, “Go take her, you whom men call a god, but I call
a drunken fool ready to risk all for a woman’s lips.” pg. 267
35. Go take her and ask the blessing upon your kisses of yonder dead
king whose lady rest you break.” pg. 268
36. We clung and kissed. Then I thrust her [Quilla] away, saying: “Come
swiftly from this ill-omened place.” pg. 268
37. Then the eight warriors with me told them all the tale of the saving
of Quilla and the death of the giant Urco at my hand, whereon their captains
came and kissed my feet, saying that I was in truth a god, though heretofore
some of them had held me to be but a man. pg. 27
38. More, he [Kari] knelt before me and kissed the ground, as the humblest
of his slaves might do before his own majesty. pg. 282
39. “I remember it,” I said, “That [to Quilla] in the beloved arms
you should sleep at last.” pg. 285
40. I knew it always, but [to Hubert] being a woman I desired to hear
it from your own lips. pg. 285
41. Now, Lord-from-the-Sea, at whose coming my sleeping heart awoke
to love and whose sword saved me from shame and death, giving me back to
life and light, here, before this company of our people, I, the Daughter
of the Moon, defying the Sun who held me captive, and all his servants,
take you to husband with this kiss,” and leaning forward Quilla pressed
her lips upon my own… pg. 294