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The truth is, if old Major Dover hadn't dropped dead at Taunton races Jim would never have come to Thursgood's at all. - John Le Carre, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy [1974] The Honorable Louis Sears, American Ambassador to Sarkhan, was angry. Even though the airconditioner kept his office cool, he felt hot and irritable. He smoothed out the editorial page of the Sarkhan Eastern Star, the most widely distributed paper in Haidho, and studied the cartoon carefully. - William Julius Lederer and Eugene Leonard Burdick, The Ugly American [1959] When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird [1960] There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed [1974] I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination. - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness [1969] It was a dark and stormy night. In her attic bedroom Margaret Murry, wrapped in an old patchwork quilt, sat on the foot of her bed and watched the trees tossing in frenzied lashing of the wind. Behind the trees clouds scudded frantically across the sky. Every few moments the moon ripped through them, creating wraithlike shadows that raced along the ground. - Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time [1962] (ch. 1) The church had become a tomb where forty-seven bodies turned to leather and stains had been lying on the concrete floor the past five years, though not lying where they had been shot with Kalashnikovs or hacked to death with machetes. The benches had been removed and the bodies reassembled: men, women and small children laid in rows of skulls and spines, femurs, fragments of cloth stuck to mummified remains, many of the adults missing feet, all missing bones had been carried off by scavenging dogs. - Elmore Leonard, Pagan Babies [2000] (ch. 1) I was travelling post from Tiflis. All the luggage I had in my cart consisted of one small portmanteau half filled with travelling-notes on Georgia; of these the greater part has been lost, fortunately for you; but the portmanteau itself and the rest of its contents have remained intact, fortunately for me. - Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time [1840] (ch. I), (Wisdom and Murray translation) The two women were alone in the London flat. - Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook [1962] Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. - Jonathan Allen Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn [1999] The rain was dashing in torrents against the window-panes, and the wind sweeping in heavy and fitful gusts along the dreary and deserted streets, as a party of three persons sat over their wine, in that stately old pile which once formed the resort of the Irish Members, in College Green, Dublin, and went by the name of Daly's Clubhouse. - Charles James Lever, Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon [1840] (ch. 1) Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available. - Ira Levin, Rosemary's Baby [1967] Nothing ever ends. - Meyer Levin, Compulsion [1956] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. - C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis, A Grief Observed [1961] Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids. - C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe [1950] My dear Wormwood, I note what you say about guiding your patient's reading and taking care that he sees a good deal of his materialist friend. But are you not being a trifle naive? It sounds as if you suppose that argument was the way to keep him out of the enemy's clutches. That might have been so if he had lived a few centuries earlier. - C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis, The Screwtape Letters [1942] (ch. 1) There was once a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. - C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader [1952] Slow yellow river flowing, willows that gesture in tepid August airs, and four children playing at greatness, as, doubtless, great men themselves must play. - Sinclair Lewis, Ann Vickers [1933] The driver of the wagon swaying through forest and swamp of the Ohio wilderness was a ragged girl of fourteen. - Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith [1925] The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. - Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt [1922] Until Jinny Marshland was called to the stand, the Judge was deplorably sleepy. - Sinclair Lewis, Cass Timberlane [1945] The aristocracy of Zenith were dancing at the Keenpoose Canoe Club. - Sinclair Lewis, Dodsworth [1929] Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk. - Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry [1927] The handsome dining room of the Hotel Wessex, with its gilded plaster shields and the mural depicting the Green Mountains, had been reserved for the Ladies' Night Dinner of the Fort Beulah Rotary Club. - Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here [1935] Mr. Blingham, and may he fry in his own cooking-oil, was assistant treasurer of the Flaver-Saver Company. - Sinclair Lewis, Kingsblood Royal [1947] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Displaying page 51 of 95 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 [51] 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95
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