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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. - [Enlightenment] About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small protuberance jutted out from the northwest corner of what would later become North America. - Alaska [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK On a bleak wintry morning some years ago I was summoned to the office of our naval attache at the American embassy in Kabul. - Caravans [Books (First Lines)] The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east. - Caribbean [Books (First Lines)] Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door. - Centennial [Books (First Lines)] For some time now they had been suspicious of him. - Chesapeake [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Millions upon millions of years ago, when the continents were already formed and the principal features of the earth had been decided, there existed, then as now, one aspect of the world that dwarfed all others. - Hawaii [Books (First Lines)] I had been sent to Mexico to cover a murder, one of a remarkable kind. - Mexico [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK In a small Polish farm community, during the fall planting season of 1981, events occurred which electrified the world, sending reverberations of magnitude to capitals as diverse as Washington, Peking and especially Moscow. - Poland [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK In 1948 I addressed some students at Washington and Lee University, and in the question-answer period one young man observed with asperity, "But it's easy for you to write. You've traveled." - Return to Paradise [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years. - Space [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK I was surprised when shortly after New Year's Day of 1983, the Governor of Texas summoned me to his office, because I hadn't been aware that he knew I was in town. - Texas [Books (First Lines)] It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa. - The Covenant [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Youth is truth. - The Drifters [Books (First Lines)] On Tuesday the freighter steamed through the Straits of Gibraltar and for five days plowed eastward through the Mediterranean, past islands and peninsulas rich in history, so that on Saturday night the steward advised Dr. Cullinane, "If you wish an early sight of the Holy Land you must be up at dawn." - The Source [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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