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The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard. - Blue Camellia (prologue) [Books (First Lines)] Life was sometimes puzzling to Lavinia Winslow, but it was never dull, and she could remember when it had begun to seem both bewildering and more exciting. It was the spring after her father had been so sick, and she had made her grandmother and grandfather Winslow a long visit. - Blue Camellia (pt. 1, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] "Isn't it all wonderful, darling? Would you ever have dreamed, back in Milwaukee, that it could be warm like this the second of January? Or that everything in New Orleans would be just ten times as cute and quaint as we thought it would be?" - Dinner at Antoine's (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Emily Thayer stood beside the Christmas tree in the drawing room of the old Forbes house on Louisburg Square, looking out at the candle-lighted windows across the park and listening to the carolers who came stamping through the snow. At least, this was what she appeared to be doing. - Joy Street (pt. 1, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] As usual, dinner at Cindy Lou had been a rich repast, and conducive to pleasant somnolence. - Steamboat Gothic (book 1, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] The day was warm for March, and the stranger, who had been walking for nearly half an hour along the river road, took a fine embroidered handkerchief from the tail pocket of his burgundy-colored frock coat and mopped his face with it. Then he flicked the handkerchief lightly over his tight-fitting mouse-gray trousers and his shining congress boots. He had no mind to reach his destination dripping with sweat or powdered with dust. - Steamboat Gothic (prologue) [Books (First Lines)] "There's no use going to the window yet, Merry. It's barely five, and you know these things never start on time. I don't believe the parade's left the campus yet." - The River Road (pt. 1, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Police Constable Fergus Gilpin, one of several P.C.'s taking incoming calls in the underground "nerve center" of New Scotland Yard, leaned forward and spoke pleasantly into the telephone of his individual headset. - The Royal Box (prologue) [Books (First Lines)] "It's no use, Althea. I've tried and tried to figure out some way of keeping it. But we'll have to give up the telephone." - The Royal Box (pt. 1, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] "Well, thanks a million, Captain Bob. No one but you could have ferreted this out for me." - Victorine (pt. 1, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)]
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