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Maxi Amberville, with characteristic impatience and a lifelong disregard for regulations, sprang out of her seat in the moving Concorde that was taxiing to a stop, and raced along the narrow aisle toward the forward exit. Her fellow passengers sat in the aloof tranquility of those who have paid twice the price of a first-class ticket to travel from Paris to New York and felt no further pressure to hurry. As she flew by a few eyebrows were elegantly raised at the sight of such an unpardonly pretty girl in an undignified rush. - I'll Take Manhattan (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Fauve dashed through the lobby, her Stop-sign red slicker flapping around her, and managed to squeeze her way through the elevator doors a split second before they closed. Panting, she tried to furl her big striped umbrella so that it wouldn't drip on the other people who were jammed in with her, but, in the crowd, her arms were pinned to her sides. - Mistral's Daughter (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] "We could always shoot this on top of the RCA Building," Daisy said, walking past the parapet, above which rose a high, metal railing designed to forestall would-be suicides. "They're not nearly as paranoid as you Empire State people." She gestured scornfully at the ledge behind her. "But, Mr. Jones, if it's not the view from precisely here, the message just won't be New York." - Princess Daisy (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK In Beverly Hills only the infirm and senile do not drive their own cars. The local police are accustomed to odd combinations of vehicle and driver: the stately, nearsighted retired banker making an illegal left-hand turn in his Dino Ferrari, the teen-ager speeding to a tennis lesson in a fifty-five-thousand-dollar Rolls-Royce Corniche, the matronly civic leader blithely parking her bright red Jaguar at a bus stop. - Scruples [Books (First Lines)] Eve Coudert held out her five-franc note to the ticket-seller. She gave him a nonchalant smile as she paid for a ride in the hot-air balloon that lay tethered on the huge field of La Maladiere, outside of Dijon, where the great Air Show of 1910 was in its last day. - Till We Meet Again [Books (First Lines)]
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