“The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams
“All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
“Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.” - The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams
“All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
“Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.” - The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.” - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
“The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams
“All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
“Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.” - The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.” - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
“It’s getting late.” - The Dark Fields (republished as Limitless) by Alan Glynn
“The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams
“All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
“Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.” - The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.” - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
“It’s getting late.” - The Dark Fields (republished as Limitless) by Alan Glynn
“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
“The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams
“All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
“Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.” - The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.” - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
“It’s getting late.” - The Dark Fields (republished as Limitless) by Alan Glynn
“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
“You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.” - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
“The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams
“All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
“Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.” - The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.” - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
“It’s getting late.” - The Dark Fields (republished as Limitless) by Alan Glynn
“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
“You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.” - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
“I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho’ not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull: He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family at Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Keutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our Selves, and writer Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call’d me.” - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
“The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams
“All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
“Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.” - The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.” - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
“It’s getting late.” - The Dark Fields (republished as Limitless) by Alan Glynn
“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
“You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.” - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
“I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho’ not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull: He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family at Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Keutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our Selves, and writer Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call’d me.” - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
“In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army.” - A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle
“The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams
“All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
“Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.” - The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.” - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
“It’s getting late.” - The Dark Fields (republished as Limitless) by Alan Glynn
“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
“You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.” - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
“I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho’ not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull: He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family at Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Keutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our Selves, and writer Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call’d me.” - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
“In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army.” - A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle
“Mr Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.” Animal Farm, George Orwell
“The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams
“All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
“Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.” - The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.” - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
“It’s getting late.” - The Dark Fields (republished as Limitless) by Alan Glynn
“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
“You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.” - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
“I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho’ not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull: He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family at Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Keutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our Selves, and writer Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call’d me.” - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
“In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army.” - A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle
“Mr Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.” Animal Farm, George Orwell
“The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.” 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
“The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams
“All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
“Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.” - The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.” - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
“It’s getting late.” - The Dark Fields (republished as Limitless) by Alan Glynn
“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
“You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.” - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
“I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho’ not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull: He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family at Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Keutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our Selves, and writer Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call’d me.” - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
“In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army.” - A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle
“Mr Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.” Animal Farm, George Orwell
“The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.” 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
“In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him.” - The Beautiful & the Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Noticed something interesting about John Steinbeck. Here are the opening lines from three of his books:
“The Salinas Valley is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into Monterey Bay.” - East of Eden
“To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.” - The Grapes of Wrath
“A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool.” - Of Mice and Men
I thought it was unusual how similar they are: a description of a natural geographic feature doing something.
“The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams
“All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
“Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.” - The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.” - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
“It’s getting late.” - The Dark Fields (republished as Limitless) by Alan Glynn
“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
“You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.” - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
“I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho’ not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull: He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family at Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Keutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our Selves, and writer Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call’d me.” - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
“In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army.” - A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle
“Mr Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.” Animal Farm, George Orwell
“The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.” 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
“In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him.” - The Beautiful & the Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald
“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.” Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis
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