"To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman."

"It was love at first sight."

"On the 24th of May, 1863, my uncle, Professor Liedenbrock, rushed into his little house, No. 19 Königstrasse, one of the oldest streets in the oldest portion of the city of Hamburg."

"The sun was going down by the time they decided to hang me."

"IT WAS YEARS before Christopher told anyone about his dreams."

"The feather lay in my palm."

"He drifted off, and when he opened his eyes the woman was still there."

"IT WAS Mrs. May who first told me about them."

"Finn had been flung on his face and chained to the stone slabs of the transitway."

"Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around its outer walls."

"For a week Mr. R. Childan had been anxiously watching the mail."

"SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17_ and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof."

"Brother Francis Gerard of Utah might never have discovered the blessed documents, had it not been for the pilgrim with girded loins who appeared during that young novice's Lenten fast in the desert."

"Ash fell from the sky."

"Titus is seven."

"Awhile ago there was a young man dwelling in a great and goodly city by the sea which had to name Langton on Holm."

"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."

"'No! I don’t want the mangosteen.'"

"The woman bore a scorch mark from her chin to her brow."

"Even when he reached Kamakura and the Engakuji Temple, Kikuji did not know whether or not he would go to the tea ceremony."

"Call me Ishmael."

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."

"Marley was dead: to begin with."

"The tower, which was not supposed to be there, plunges into the earth in a place just before the black pine forest begins to give way to swamp and then the reeds and wind-gnarled trees of the marsh flats."

"Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she'd been told that she would kill her true love."