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He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees. The mountainside sloped gently where he lay; but below it was steep and he could see the dark of the oiled road winding through the pass. There was a stream alongside the road and far down the pass he saw a mill beside the stream and the falling water of the dam, white in the summer sunlight. - For Whom the Bell Tolls [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK The world is a fine place and worth fighting for. - For Whom the Bell Tolls (ch. 43) [World] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn." - Green Hills of Africa [Literature] In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it any more. - In Another Country, a short story [Books (First Lines)] The strange thing was, he said, how they screamed every night at midnight. I do not know why they screamed at that time. We were in the harbor and they were all on the pier and at midnight they started screaming. - In Our Time [Books (First Lines)] The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship. It was shaded by tall coconut palms that were bent by the trade wind and on the ocean side you could walk out of the door and down the bluff across the white sand and into the Gulf Stream. - Islands in the Stream [Books (First Lines)] A man can be destroyed but not defeated. - The Old Man and the Sea [Explorers] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK 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. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boy's parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week. - The Old Man and the Sea [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think that I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn. He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but he learned it painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton. - The Sun Also Rises [Books (First Lines)] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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