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The three hanged men turned in the wind as the timbers of the gibbet creaked and the blizzard covered the shabby coats of the dead with shrouds of white. The boy was frightened of the three, with their closed eyes, fishy white skin, purple throats. He knew them all: O'Murphy, Caslin, and Uncle Dave, Pa's brother. They frightened him nearly as much as this sudden storm. - California Gold (prelude) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land. - California Gold (pt. I) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK All around him, pillars of fire shot skyward. The fighting had ignited the dry underbrush, then the trees. Smoke brought tears to his eyes and made it hard to see the enemy skirmishers. - Heaven and Hell (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony. - Love and War (prologue) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK "Like some help loading that aboard, young sir?" The stevedore smiled but there was no friendliness in his eyes, only avarice inspired by the sight of an obvious stranger. - North and South (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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