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Two small, sturdy boys stood alone on the empty deck of the Channel steamer. - Chances (pt. 1, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] It was half-past five in the morning. The village was stretching itself. Thin spirals of blue smoke began to creep out of the first chimney, then another. From inside cow byres came the subdued rattle of chains and the swish of cows being milked. One by one the animals came out into the dewy paddocks with that peculiar low mumble as though grumbling to themselves. - Soundings (pt. 1, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)]
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