First lines of books
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wellinghallAll you have to do is guess the book or story! Clearly, Googling is cheating. Comments will be screened, to give everyone a chance.
1. Mr Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth - a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centred upon his own silly self.
2. On December the third the wind changed overnight and it was winter.
3. High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince.
4. No matter how hard you try you will never be able to grasp just how tiny, how spatially unassuming, is a proton.
5. One day, I was sitting in my study surrounded by many books of different kinds, for it has long been my habit to engage in the pursuit of knowledge.
6. The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.
7. There was a boy who lived in a hamlet in Orkney named Hamnavoe.
8. Roy Tappen was always mildly amazed when the security police passed him through the high steel gates into the tightest of all Britain's research establishments, the Nuclear-Utilization Technology Centre, whose inmates alternately pronounced the acronym Nuts or vilely anagrammatized it.
9. She had been running for four days now, a harum-scarum tumbling flight through passages and tunnels.
10. Cicely Yeovil sat in a low swing chair, alternately looking at herself in a mirror and at the other occupant of the room in the flesh.
11. The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.
12. His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before.
ETA: Two minor corrections made. I should also say that I have omitted all prologues, forwards, prefaces, introductions &c.
1. Mr Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth - a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centred upon his own silly self.
2. On December the third the wind changed overnight and it was winter.
3. High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince.
4. No matter how hard you try you will never be able to grasp just how tiny, how spatially unassuming, is a proton.
5. One day, I was sitting in my study surrounded by many books of different kinds, for it has long been my habit to engage in the pursuit of knowledge.
6. The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.
7. There was a boy who lived in a hamlet in Orkney named Hamnavoe.
8. Roy Tappen was always mildly amazed when the security police passed him through the high steel gates into the tightest of all Britain's research establishments, the Nuclear-Utilization Technology Centre, whose inmates alternately pronounced the acronym Nuts or vilely anagrammatized it.
9. She had been running for four days now, a harum-scarum tumbling flight through passages and tunnels.
10. Cicely Yeovil sat in a low swing chair, alternately looking at herself in a mirror and at the other occupant of the room in the flesh.
11. The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.
12. His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before.
ETA: Two minor corrections made. I should also say that I have omitted all prologues, forwards, prefaces, introductions &c.
