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It was the coldest winter for forty-five years. Villages in the English countryside were cut off by the snow and the Thames froze over. One day in January the Glasgow-London train arrived at Euston twenty-four hours late. - Eye of the Needle (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK It was the most romantic plane ever made. - Night Over Water (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] It all started on December 5, 1978. Jay Coburn, Director of Personnel for EDS Corporation Iran, sat in his office in uptown Tehran with a lot on his mind. - On Wings of Eagles (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] The last camel collapsed at noon. It was the five-year-old white bull he had bought in Gialo, the youngest and strongest of the three beasts, and the least ill-tempered: he liked the animal as much as a man could like a camel, which is to say that he hated it only a little. - The Key to Rebecca (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK It was a slow Sunday afternoon, the kind Walden loved. He stood at an open window and looked across the park. The broad, level lawn was doted with mature trees: a Scotch pine, a pair of mighty oaks, several chestnuts and a willow like a head of girlish curls. The sun was high and the trees cast dark, cool shadows. The birds were silent, but a hum of contented bees came from the flowering creeper beside the window. The house as still, too. - The Man from St. Petersburg (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] In a broad valley, at the foot of a sloping hillside, beside a clear bubbling stream, Tom was building a house. - The Pillars of the Earth (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)]
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