First Line Meme
Another meme provided by the wonderful jusrecht
1. Pick 10 books or series that are within easy reach.
2. Post the first sentence of each book. (If one sentence seems too short, post two or three!)
3. Let everyone try to guess the titles and authors of your books.
1. The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.
2. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thriteen.1984, George Orwell.
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3. Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. jusrecht
4. It begins in Avebury, in the late July of a cool, wet summer turned suddenly warm and dry. The Marlborough Downs shimmer in a haze of unfamiliar heat.
5. This far below Emond's Field, halfway to the Waterwood, trees lined the banks of the Winespring Water.
6. About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward, of Huntringdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a braronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen.jusrecht
7. Since I became Master of the Rolls in 1962 there have been many important developments in the Law of Contempt of Court.
8. Knowledge is the enemy of faith.
9. The night of the first killing was filled with song. St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan trembled to the sound of Handel's Messiah, the grand choral masterpiece than never failed to rouse even the most slumbering audience.
10. On a sticky august evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in a bowl.
Technically the closest books to me right now are textbooks and notes on Indian Contracts Act, so I decided to leave them out.
1. Pick 10 books or series that are within easy reach.
2. Post the first sentence of each book. (If one sentence seems too short, post two or three!)
3. Let everyone try to guess the titles and authors of your books.
1. The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.
2. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thriteen.1984, George Orwell.
jusrecht
3. Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. jusrecht
4. It begins in Avebury, in the late July of a cool, wet summer turned suddenly warm and dry. The Marlborough Downs shimmer in a haze of unfamiliar heat.
5. This far below Emond's Field, halfway to the Waterwood, trees lined the banks of the Winespring Water.
6. About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward, of Huntringdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a braronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen.jusrecht
7. Since I became Master of the Rolls in 1962 there have been many important developments in the Law of Contempt of Court.
8. Knowledge is the enemy of faith.
9. The night of the first killing was filled with song. St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan trembled to the sound of Handel's Messiah, the grand choral masterpiece than never failed to rouse even the most slumbering audience.
10. On a sticky august evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in a bowl.
Technically the closest books to me right now are textbooks and notes on Indian Contracts Act, so I decided to leave them out.