“We were in the sitting room of the presidential car, the Ferdinand Magellan, racing across Kansas by night.”
Harry S. Truman, by Margaret Truman
“It was the crying from down below that woke me up that hot night.”
Turn Homeward, Hannalee, by Patricia Beatty.
“Mom?” Travis Uriah Long called toward the rear of the big, quiet house.
*A Call to Duty", by David Weber and Timothy Zahn
“Before I was born, I went on the road.”
-- A Life on the Road, by Charles Kuralt
Sherry Pinkwhistle woke up to the deep silence of snowfall, cozily ensconced in the warmth of her bed and the knowledge that she had just solved another murder.
The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by C.M. Waggoner
“Yeah, thanks,” the teenager said, swiping his tangled mop of hair out of his eyes.
A Call to Arms, by David Weber and Timothy Zahn, with Thomas Pope
The Spanish Inquisition hadn’t been the first political and religious witch-hunt in Old Earth’s violent history.
A Call to Vengeance, by David Weber and Timothy Zahn, with Thomas Pope
“The justly named Golden Sands resort, north of Varna on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, boasts warm, shallow waters where children can paddle while their parents look on tranquilly from the beach.”
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, by Laura Spinney
“This is how I find out Jenny is pregnant on Mars.”
How to Mars, a science fiction novel by David Ebenbach
“The five C-54 transports droned in a clumsy echelon, shepherded by skittish fighters above and below the formation.”
-- General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman, by Ed Cray
Hereditary President Trudy McIntyre had never been what Lucretia Tomlinson would have called a handsome woman.
A Call to Insurrection, by David Weber and Timothy Zahn with Thomas Pope
I am looking out of the window, across farmland, houses and parks, towards a place that for hundreds of years has been known as World’s End.
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds, by Thomas Halliday
“Louise, no matter what happens, I’m glad I came with you.”
Find Me by Alafair Burke
“One typically hot summer day in Williamsburg, Virginia, I noticed a crowd of people gathering on the lawn of the Governor’s Palace.”
A Grizzly in the Mail and Other Adventures in American History, by Tim Grove
“Nadya Sokolov, as she grew older, would come to say that she had three mothers: the one who bore her, the country that poisoned her, and the one who adopted her.”
Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear, by Seanan McGuire.
All I had to do was pick a direction.
Gorgon With the Wind by Devon Monk
“In the late fall of 1864, as General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Union Army marched toward Savannah, Sally, a freedwoman, roamed the camps at night searching for her children.”
Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation, by Bennett Parten
“The first day I went to Plum Grove School, a little one-room school on a hilltop where one teacher taught all the first eight grades, I met Corbie.”
My Land Has a Voice, by Jesse Stuart. (Note that this is a story collection, and the sentence is from “Corbie”.)
“One True Sentence was inspired by One True Podcast, our show about Ernest Hemingway’s life, work, and world.”
One True Sentence by Mark Cirino and Michael Von Cannon
“Judge Timothy S. Black strode into his bustling courtroom, long black robe whipping around his legs, and glanced at the sea of faces that was looking at him, the judge who would decide whether the will of Ohio’s voters trumped the wishes of a dying man.”
Love Wins by Debbie Cenziper and Jim Obergefell
“Captain Kidd the pirate! Kidd the Buccaneer! Kidd the Murderer! Rats! Rats and mice and likewise fiddlesticks!”
Captain Kidd’s Cat by Robert Lawson
“My father drove me to school each morning during my first year of high school.”
The Roses Speak by James Menkhaus