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There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
It was a dark and stormy night.
It was a pleasure to burn.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
You better not never tell nobody but God.
Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
“Where's Papa going with that axe?” said Fern.
Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents, grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
Call me Ishmael.
It was 7 minutes after midnight.
All this happened, more or less.
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
He 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.
I have just returned from a visit to my landlord – the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.
Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.