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| Except for the Marabar Caves - and they are twenty miles off - the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary. | |
| 'What's it going to be then, eh?' | |
| It was a pleasure to burn. | |
| I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before. | |
| 'Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,' grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. | |
| On January 6, 1482, the people of Paris were awakened by the tumultuous clanging of all the bells in the city. | |
| It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune, must be in want of a wife. | |
| It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered, before the adverse hosts could meet. | |
| Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. | |
| It was love at first sight. | |
| The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. | |
| My father had a small state in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons. | |
| Howard Roark laughed. | |
| Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. | |
| There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. | |
| All this happened, more or less. | |
| The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon. | |
| In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together. | |
| 'Yes, of course, if it's fine tomorrow,' said Mrs. Ramsay. | |
| I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. | |
| For a long time, I used to go to bed early. | |
| Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng! | |
| On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. Bridge. | |
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| When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. | |
| They're out there. | |
| They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life. | |
| Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. | |
| All children, except one, grow up. | |
| Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York. | |
| When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. | |
| A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. | |
| I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. | |
| It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York. | |
| Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. | |
| We were in study hall when the headmaster walked in, followed by a new boy not wearing a school uniform, and by a janitor carrying a large desk. | |
| The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. | |
| The time traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. | |
| The day broke grey and dull. | |
| I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. | |
| Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. | |
| In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. | |
| It was four o'clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive. | |
| Call me Ishmael. | |
| It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. | |
| A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. | |
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