247 Quotes About First-sentence
- Author Robert Cormier
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Ray Bannister started to build the guillotine the day Jerry Renault returned to Monument.
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- Author John Updike
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First snow: it came this year late in November.
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- Author Monica Ali
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An hour and forty-five minutes before Nazneen's life began-began as it would proceed for quite some time, that is to say uncertainly-her mother, Rupban, felt an iron fist squeeze her belly.
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- Author Diana Abu-Jaber
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The sky is white.
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- Author Jane Smiley
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At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road.
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- Author Edgar Rice Burroughs
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As he dropped the last grisly fragment of the dismembered and mutilated body into the small vat of nitric acid that was to devour every trace of the horrid evidence which might easily send him to the gallows, the man sank weakly into a chair and throwing his body forward upon his great, teak desk buried his face in his arms, breaking into dry, moaning sobs.
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- Author David Davidar
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As the ordinary violence of dawn sweeps across the lower Coromandel coast, a sprawling village comes into view.
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- Author Martha Ackmann
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Jerrie Cobb reached down and pulled the heavy layers of arctic clothing over her navy blue linen dress.
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- Author Melinda Blanchard
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From the air Anguilla looked narrow, flat, and scrubby, but that was only part of the picture.
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