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They left the village in the clear dawn light. As the sun rose the mountains were dazzling white with dark blue hollows, every indentation could be seen, and they looked so close that a stranger might have thought them a two hours' drive away. - August 1914 (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold? - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, (Ralph Parker translation) [Understanding] At five o'clock that morning reveille was sounded, as usual, by the blows of a hammer on a length of reail hanging up near the staff quarters. - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (ch. 1), (Ralph Parker translation) [Books (First Lines)] Reveille was sounded, always, at 5 A.M.--a hammer pounding on a rail outside camp HQ. The ringing noise came faintly on and off through the windowpanes covered with ice more than an inch thick, and died away fast. It was cold and the warder didn't feel like going on banging. - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (ch. 1), (Hayward and Hingley translation) [Books (First Lines)] On top of everything, the cancer wing was Number 13. Pavel Nikolayevich Rusanov had never been and could never be a superstitious person, but his heart sank when they wrote "Wing 13" on his admission card. They should have had the ingenuity to assign 13 to some kind of prosthetic or intestinal department. - The Cancer Ward [Books (First Lines)] The fretwork hands stood at five past four. - The First Circle, (Thomas P. Whitney translation) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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