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As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them. - [Conservation : Health] Dinner was finished at last and old Hector Champion sat like Lucullus, white and bloated, fingering a tall crystal Burgundy glass and surveying the beautiful table. - 24 Hours (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] She found the letter when she returned to the slate-colored house from the regular monthly meeting of the Augusta Simpson Branch of the Woman's Christian temperance Union. - A Good Woman [Books (First Lines)] Outside the snow was falling, thickly in great wet flakes, so that the sound of the traffic on Park Avenue coming through the drawn curtains was muted and distant. - Mrs. Parkington [Books (First Lines)] His luggage was all ready to be taken ashore, his cabin in order and now he stood on the upper deck just beneath the bridge watching the flying fish scud out of each jade green land swell of the Arabian Gulf like swift pencils of silver and disappear again in glittering jets of spray. - Night in Bombay [Books (First Lines)] Johnny's earliest memory of the Farm was filled with snow and the sound of sleighbells. - The Farm [Books (First Lines)] It was the hour of the day that Ransome loved best and he sat on the verandah now, drinking brandy and watching the golden light flood all the banyan trees and the yellow-gray house and the scarlet creeper for one brilliant moment before the sun, with a sudden plunge, dropped below the horizon and left the whole countryside in darkness. - The Rains Came [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and chilly palaces for the mountains or the sea. - The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg [Books (First Lines)]
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