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It rained lightly on the morning of Wednesday, July 4, 1917, and the Festival Committee met to decide whether to postpone the Festival until the following Saturday. - A Rage to Live [Books (First Lines)] Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep. - Appointment in Samarra (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] The house was at the corner of Harvard Road and Bucknell Street, set back on two sides from the unpaved sidewalks, and with a garage at the rear. - Elizabeth Appleton [Books (First Lines)] There are alive today hundreds of men who saw Samuel Eaton, who accepted wages from him, envied him, hated him, laughed at him behind his back, worked hard for him, cheated him, and never addressed him except as Mr. Eaton or Mr. Samuel. - From the Terrace [Books (First Lines)] As a boy and until I was sixteen I spent a large part of every summer at my grandfather's house in Lyons, Pennsylvania. - Ourselves to Know [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK I know of no quiet quite like that of a men's club at about half past nine on a summer Sunday evening. - Sermons and Soda-Water, III, We're Friends Again, a novella [Books (First Lines)] To those who knew the bride and the groom, the marriage of Bobbie Hammersmith and Pete McCrea was the surprise of the year. - Sermons and Soda-Water, II, Imagine Kissing Pete, a novella [Books (First Lines)] When I was first starting out in New York I wrote quite a few obituaries of men who were presumably in good health, but who were no longer young. - Sermons and Soda-Water, I, The Girl on the Baggage Truck, a novella [Books (First Lines)] Edith Chapin was alone in her sewing room on the third floor of the house at Number 10 Frederick Street. - Ten North Frederick [Books (First Lines)] On Sunday afternoons people would drive out to have a look at George Lockwood's wall, and sometimes they would see, from a distance, George Lockwood doing the same thing they were doing. - The Lockwood Concern [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK An artist is his own fault. - The Portable F. Scott Fitzgerald (introduction) [Art]
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