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Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex.

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents...

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

The Miss Lonelyhearts of the New York Post-Dispatch (Are you in trouble?—Do-you-need-advice?—Write-to-Miss-Lonelyhearts-and-she-will-help-you) sat at his desk and stared at a piece of white cardboard.

You better not never tell nobody but God.

Call me Ishmael.

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, ...

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.

I am an invisible man.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.

The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, ...

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'; but that ain’t no matter.

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

For a long time, I went to bed early.

It was the day my grandmother exploded.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

All this happened, more or less.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

It was a pleasure to burn.

A screaming comes across the sky.

The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.

It was love at first sight.

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

Mother died today.