Tagged...

Although I've been tagged for a while, I have kind of just let it hang in mid-air, waiting to be put up on my blog.  I could give a lot of silly excuses for why I haven't been blogging and I could almost truthfully say that I haven't felt like blogging recently, but the real reason for my blog-abscence is because I have been pretty sick with a cold.  I'm still a little icky feeling, but I really wanted to do the tag that the Bessingers, Anika-q, Noah, Sarah, and a few others did.

So, without further ado, here goes:

1)  In the meantime, he was strengthening his own faction in the kingdom, of which he proposed to dispute the succession, in case of the kings death, with the legitimate heir, Arthur, Duke of Brittany, son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, the elder brother of John.

2)  It stuck in his trunk.

3) (As this one was going to be a rather hard, 'No!, I decided to add half of the next sentence for help) 'No!  I only thought it seemed rather unfair,' said ????, gently; but she did not end her sentence, 

4)  He did not do this as a physician, however; and for this distemper "only thou canst heal, who resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble".

5)  His idea of luxury was to spend a night in such surroundings.

6)  "They're going to finally let you out of here?"

7)  My sister and I went out to greet them and my father and mother took the girl inside.

8)  There, I found my mother, very pale and with red eyes; into whose arms I ran, and begged her pardon from my suffering soul.

9) He looked at me again and smiled.

10) But Miss B- thought it most becoming to reply-- "The avenue!

Hints:

1)  7 of these are by foreign authors, six British, one Welsh.

2)  2 was the first of many adventure novels.

3)  Yes, some were written by Dickens or Austen

4)  5 is speaking of a mouse

5)  7 was narrarated by the most famous Indian woman