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"That's silly, I could read all them myself, even Alice with her oldfashioned words".Page 56, sentence 5 of the book Room.
"The bowl of his pipe was made or meerschaum clay, and it had a flexible stem about three feet long so that the bowl rested on his lap."From Boy: Tales of Childhood
"He had taken extra care to prepare, because today he would have to persuade them he had come to protect Dante." From The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
And with that thought came the knowledge of exactly what was apt, the suitable, in fact the only gift.Afternoon of an Autocrat-Norah Lofts
"Of course they did; for I felt their eyes directed like burning-glasses against my scorched skin" (Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë).
bell-weth-er (bell'weth'er)n (ME) 1. a male sheep, usually wearing a bell, that leads the flock.Webster's New World Dictionary
"Now she walked over to the kitchen trashcan and dropped the bone into it."LOL How random! Fun game :)Until Forever
"The murderer held his bloody blade up by his face and grinned at us."Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
In the garden-scene it had all the tremulous ecstasy that one hears before dawn and the nightingales are singing.The Picture of Dorian Gray-Oscar Wilde
Kristina wrote: ""Of course they did; for I felt their eyes directed like burning-glasses against my scorched skin" (Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë)."We must have different translations, lol!
"Then the scanty supply of food was distressing: with the keen appetites of growing children, we had scarcely sufficient to keep alive a delicate invalid."
Jane Eyre
He explained that he had studied medicine and acupuncture in Taiwan but had completed his medical training in America. (in Gone by Maragret Wilcox)
"Finally he took off his T-shirt, which read, "Cascades 10K run June 4,1978," and wiped his face and neck with it."A Thousand Acres" by Jane Smiley
(Interesting thought, this probably sounds like a romance novel but it isn't! This is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy "King Lear")
You see, I close my eyes and think: if everyone has faith, where does it come from?
"I saw in the security videos much later that it was actually lying on the floor behind me, soaking up blood."Hate List by Jennifer Brown
The Prince also had blood covering his own hands, and he saw a bloodied knife on the grass beside them, resting against the roots of the tree. A Monster Calls-Patrick Ness
And because I have two books sitting beside each other and this is fun...."He reached out and knocked on the air just to the right of Barbie's handprint." Under the Dome
"there werre hot springs to the north of our city which we piped to heat our glass houses." Far North-Marcel Theroux
Without looking back at the young woman, Dane said, “But I didn’t kill that gator sunning near the canal since I knew he wouldn’t bother anyone.”
From INSTRUCTIONS FOR LOVE, by June Shaw, a free Kindle romance today and tomorrow here: http://www.amazon.com/Instructions-fo...
"(That she'd been subpoenaed, one observer said, raised the question "of whether it is subversive for a Southern white woman to treat a Negro child with kindness.")"from Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock
Whole chateau breathed a relieved sigh when the Cowley had cleared the poplar avenue (known as the Monk's Walk).Cloud Atlas
"He was squinting out the window as he said this, as though something more interesting had caught his eye."from A Thousand Splendid Suns
The corners of her mauve lips drooped as she tapped her neon yellow nails on her keyboard, clicked the computer mouse, and squinted at the screen.Bruja Brouhaha
An infield road course had been constructed inside the oval for sportscar racing, and that's where we came in
The Man in the White Suit: The Stig, Le Mans, the Fast Lane and Me
The Man in the White Suit: The Stig, Le Mans, the Fast Lane and Me
"Other leading founders, better book educated than he, quicker and suppler of mind, found it easy to condescend to Washington, though rarely with his knowledge and never in his presence." from So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State
"Not dinosaurs or 'sensitive new age guys' but men who can think for themselves and are willing to bring something new to the companies they work for"What’s that Super Model Doing in my Workplace?
In her leisure hours, she drank her ever increasing amounts of wine, read her novels, visited with friends, and was a happy, satisfied person.The Witching Hour, Anne Rice
Without Vitamin C, many different neurotransmitters oxidize and become inactive while in storage in the vesiclesFrom Your Brain on Food by Gary L. Wenk
"Sometimes he fancied he could hear a faint squeaking or creaking sound coming from his right arm."The Girl in the Steel Corset
The study was at the top of a tall tower,a peculiar structure at the heart of which was a spiral staircase that led off the main corridor, while its outside walls bore the traces of as many generations as the city could remember.The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"For some women, the journey is more important than the end result, and therefore their companions become like family to them." Everything I Needed to Know about Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume
"It was not the first time I'd been cast out of a lodging; nor the first in the middle of the night."The Whiskey Rebels
"The man was either a pervert or a policeman."The Poet by Michael Connelly
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The Little Stranger (other topics)The Whiskey Rebels (other topics)
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