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I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared to what followed. - Ian McEwan, The Cement Garden [1978] (ch. 1) If you listen, you can hear it. - Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things [2002] "Hello, ship," Jake Holman said under his breath. - Richard Milton McKenna, The Sand Pebbles [1962] At the age of three-and-twenty Charles Templeton, my old tutor at Oxford, set himself to write a history of the Third French Republic. When I made his acquaintance some thirty years later he had satisfactorily concluded his introductory chapter on the origin of Kingship. - Stephen McKenna, Sonia: Between Two Worlds [1917] (ch. 1) "Hi, this is Alexis at the Parent League. I'm just calling to follow up on the uniform guidelines we sent over . . ." - Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, The Nanny Diaries [2002] (ch. 1) Can't nobody tell me nothing I don't already know. - Terry McMillan, A Day Late and a Dollar Short [2001] Right now I'm supposed to be all geeked up because I'm getting ready for a New Year's Eve party that some guy named Lionel invited me to. - Terry McMillan, Waiting to Exhale [1992] When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake--not a very big one. - Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove [1985] In the time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable seaport would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-of-war's men or merchant sailors in holiday attire, ashore on liberty. - Herman Melville, Billy Budd [1924] The traveller who at the present day is content to travel in the good old Asiatic style, neither rushed along by a locomotive, nor dragged by a stage-coach; who is willing to enjoy hospitalities at far-scattered farmhouses, instead of paying his bill at an inn; who is not to be frightened by any amount of loneliness, or to be deterred by the roughest roads or the highest hills; such a traveller in the eastern part of Berkshire, Mass., will find ample food for poetic reflection in the singular scenery of a country, which, owing to the ruggedness of the soil and its lying out of the track of all public conveyances, remains almost as unknown to the general tourist the interior of Bohemia. - Herman Melville, Israel Potter [1854] We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound. - Herman Melville, Mardi: and a Voyage of Thither [1849] Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. - Herman Melville, Moby Dick [1851] It was the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from the bay. - Herman Melville, Omoo [1847] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK There are some strange summer mornings in the country, when he who is but a sojourner from the city shall early walk forth into the fields, and be wonder-smitten with the trance-like aspect of the green and golden world. - Herman Melville, Pierre [1852] Wellingborough, as you are going to sea, suppose you take this shooting-jacket of mine along; it's just the thing--take it, it will save the expense of another. - Herman Melville, Redburn [1849] At sunrise on a first of April, there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the waterside in the city of St. Louis. - Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man [1857] Six months at sea! - Herman Melville, Typee [1846] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK It was not a very white jacket, but white enough, in all conscience, as the sequel will show. - Herman Melville, White-Jacket [1850] Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: "an unusual combination," in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. - George Meredith, Diana of the Crossways [1885] Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases so that one is never sure whether she will come at all, nor for how long she will stay. - Grace Metalious, Peyton Place [1956] For many years it was my good fortune to witness, chronicle, and in some instances assist my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, in a number of cases which were submitted to him in his unique capacity as a consulting detective. - Nicholas Meyer, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution [1974] (introductory) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Time is a blind guide. - Anne Michaels, Fugitive Places [1997] When the thing was at its hottest, I bolted. Tom, like the darling he is--(Yes, you are, old fellow, you're as precious to me as--as you are to the police--if they could only get their hands on you)--well, Tom drew off the crowd, having passed the old gentleman's watch to me, and I made for the women's rooms. - Miriam Michelson, In the Bishop's Carriage [1904] (ch. I) About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small protuberance jutted out from the northwest corner of what would later become North America. - James A. Michener, Alaska [1988] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK On a bleak wintry morning some years ago I was summoned to the office of our naval attache at the American embassy in Kabul. - James A. Michener, Caravans [1963] Displaying page 58 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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