| Passage | Book |
|---|
| Call me Herman. | |
| It was Joseph at first sight. | |
| Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see William hitting. | |
| Ernest was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. | |
| Stately, plump James Mulligan came from the stairhead. | |
| For a long time, Marcel went to bed early. | |
| Margaret slept in what had once been the gymnasium. | |
| The Joseph, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. | |
| Vladimir, light of my life, fire of my loins. | |
| A few miles south of John, the Salinas River drops in close to the hill-side bank and runs deep and green. | |
| In my younger and more vulnerable years F. Scott gave me some advice I've been turning over in my mind ever since. | |
| Toni was spiteful. | |
| You better not never tell nobody but Alice. | |
| You don't know about me without you have read a book called 'The Adventures of Mark,' but that ain't no matter. | |
| Once there were four children whose names were C.S., Susan, Edmund and Lucy. | |
| As Franz Samsa awoke from a night of uneasy dreaming, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. | |
| Mrs. Virginia said she would buy the flowers herself. | |
| ''To be born again,' sang Salman Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die.' | |
| There was no possibility of taking a Charlotte that day. | |
| It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking George. | |
| Albert died today. Or maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure. | |
