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It was a bright noon, high summer, in the upland valleys of Tuscany: a torpid time, a season of dust and languor, of stripped flax and larks in the wheat stubble, and the new wines coming to vintage in the country of the Elder Gods. - Daughter of Silence [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK As a diplomat I have a good record. In his valedictory letter the President called it "a distinguished and meritorious career, the sum of whose service represents a great profit to the United States of America." - The Ambassador [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK The Pope was dead. - The Shoes of the Fisherman [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK The watcher on the hilltop settled himself against the snarled bole of an olive tree, tested his radio, opened his map case on his knees, focused his field glasses and began a slow meticulous survey from the southern tip of the Lake of Tiberias to the spur of Sha'ar Hagolan, where the Yarmuk River turned southwestward to join the Jordan. - The Tower of Babel [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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