Opening Line | Novel |
In the castle of Westphalia, belonging to the Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh, lived a youth, whom nature had endowed with the most gentle manners. | |
Here is Edward the Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. | |
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York. | |
A squat gray building of only thirty-four storeys. Over the main entrance the words, 'Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre', and in a shield, the World State's motto... | |
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. | |
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. | |
All this happened, more or less. | |
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. | |
The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail. | |
The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. | |
Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield... | |
In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together. | |
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. | |
You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. | |
The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon. | |
On an exceptionally hot evening in early 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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