First Sentences of Books

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

1801–I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

3 May. Bistritz.—Left Munich at 8:35 pm on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early the next morning.

The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.

__ Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly 21 years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

It was a wonderful night, the kind of night, dear reader, which is only possible when we are young.

The Opera Ghost really existed.

On the 24th of February, 1815, the lookout of Notre Dame de la Garde signaled the three-master, the Pharaon, from Smyrna, Trieste and Naples.

The Salinas Valley is in Northern California.

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.