“When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village on the west bank of the Mississippi River.” And then the murders began.
“Where’s Papa going with that axe?” said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast. And then the murders began.
An hour before sunset, on the evening of a day in the beginning of October, 1815, a man travelling afoot entered the little town of D—. And then the murders began.
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. And then the murders began.
Howard Roark laughed. And then the murders began.
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. And then the murders began.
“Oh, bother!” exclaimed Pooh, and then the murders began.
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. And then the murders began.”
“Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. And then the murders began.”
When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. And then the murders began.
Marley was dead: to begin with. And then the murders began.
(Gah, I don’t think that one worked very well.)
(A two-sentence variation).
Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans:
Our Constitution declares that from time to time, the President shall give to Congress information about the state of our union. For two hundred and twenty years, our leaders have fulfilled this duty. And then the murders began.
Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
And then the murders began.
I have six books within reach of my laptop. Let’s do this!
1. “The intertidal zone of the Pacific coast of North America supports an extraordinarily rich assortment of plants and animals. And then the murders began.”
2. “I have often wondered - and envied - at the peculiar way Clarence Judson contributed to the study of earthquakes. And then the murders began.”
3. “What is space? And then the murders began”
4. “This is how an idea becomes real. And then the murders began.”
5. “The fae lord stalked back and forth in his cell of gray stone. And then the murders began.”
6. “The griffins came to Feierabiand with the early summer warmth, riding the wind out of the heights down to the tender green pastures of the foothills. And then the murders began.”
When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? And then the murders began.
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. And then the murders began.
This one works nicely after changing the emphasis a bit:
Ryan was nearly killed twice in hour an hour. And then the murders began.
One there were four children who were named Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. And then the murders began.
The monitor lady smiled very nicely and tousled his hair and said, “Andrew, I suppose by now you’re just absolutely sick of having that horrid monitor.” And then the murders began.
“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. And then the murders began."
Some non-fiction:
Computers and information technology applications first burst into the business world primarily in the United States and Europe starting in the early 1960s. And then the murders began.
I originally intended a very different book. And then the murders began.
In the world of Microsoft system administration, it is becoming impossible to avoid PowerShell. And then the murders began.
The streets of San Francisco were jammed. And then the murders began.
Damn you! I had that line on my clipboard and I was just coming in to post it! :mad:
And then the murders began!
“Dr Strauss says I shoud rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thing that happins to me from now on. And then the murdrz began.”
This is the thread winner, right here.