- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. - Pride and Prejudice
- The great gray beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive. - The Thief of Always
- After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper. - The Meaning of Night
- As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. - The Metamorphosis
- There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself -- not just sometimes, but always. - The Phantom Tollbooth
- Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. - One Hundred Years of Solitude
- The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. - The Gunslinger
- In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. - The Hobbit
- Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Driver, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- The flotillas of the dead sailed around the world on underwater rivers. - Going Postal
- Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun. - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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