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The Williamsons' farm lay on a hillside so that when it rained the water ran down and away from it. In fifty years it had worn out and starved out the three families who had tried to work it. The Williamsons were the fourth. - A Woman Called Fancy [Books (First Lines)] Tom Benton, the man, himself, came into Louisiana in 1842, riding out of Texas, out of the sunset, out, in fact, of the myths and legends already enshrouding his past; becoming, by that simple act of appearing at the end of the San Antonio Trace, for the space of years, a man living, breathing, thinking like other men, differing from them only in the minor peculiarities by which each man differs from his fellows. - Benton's Row [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Ross Pary stood on the deck of the steamboat Crescent City, staring out over the Mississippi. - Floodtide [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK The middle years--the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties--were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper. - Pride's Castle [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK "Now you," the policeman said. "Documents!" - Speak Now [Books (First Lines)] About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. - The Foxes of Harrow [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK There was no wind in all that sweep of sky. - The Golden Hawk [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK From where they stood, they could see the castle. - The Saracen Blade [Books (First Lines)] When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble. - The Vixens [Books (First Lines)]
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