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There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. | |
If you didn't know much about the Baudelaire orphans, and you saw them sitting on their suitcases at Damocles Dock, you might think they were bound for an exciting adventure. | |
An estimated 600 women served during the American Civil War. | |
The day was grey and bitter cold, and the dogs would not take the scent. | |
Darkness had descended on Manassas, Virginia, the countryside alive with nocturnal undercurrents, as Bourne crept through the woods bordering the estate of General Norman Swayne. | |
Pippin looked out from the shelter of Gandalf's cloak. | |
I met Bobby Callahan on Monday of that week. By Thursday, he was dead. | |
The cold snap of the previous week was over; the sun was shining brightly as Clary hurried across Luke's dusty front lawn... | |
The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and suddenly remembering where he was. | |
'Harvest is ended and summer is gone,' quoted Anne Shirley, gazing across the shorn fields dreamily. | |
In a valley shaded with rhododendrons, close to the snow line, where a stream milky with meltwater splashed and where doves and linnets flew among the immense pines, lay a cave... | |
The big kitchen of the Murrys' house was bright and warm, curtains drawn against the dark outside, against the rain driving against the house from the northeast. | |
A spot of light appeared on the deep red rug which covered the raw rock of the cave floor. | |
The First Galactic Empire had endured for tens of thousands of years. | |
The assassins dropped into the palace grounds at midnight, four fleet shadows dark against the wall. | |
I've started dreaming of Portland again. | |
Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. | |
The wind blew hard and joggled the water of the ocean, sending ripples across its surface. | |
Eilonwy of the red-gold hair, the Princess Eilonwy Daughter of Angharad Daughter of Regat of the Royal House of Llyr, was leaving Caer Dallben. | |
In the court of the fountain the sun of March shone through young leaves of ash and elm, and water leapt and fell through shadow and clear light. | |
On this particular morning at the beginning of December, in the year 1138, Brother Cadfael came to chapter in tranquility of mind... | |
Only one newspaper carried the story in detail, under the headline: TREASURES STOLEN FROM MUSEUM. | |
There it was, a hole in the house! | |
A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born... | |
Since the opening line is 'Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways,' I figured that was a little obvious. | |
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