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The history of Greece and Rome can be looked at in two different ways.

The Oxford history of Greece and the hellenistic world - Broadman, Griffin & Murray
 
In the spring of the year that I was supposed to be married,a comet launched itself over the skies of my village.
 
On a very hot day in August of 1994, my wife told me she was going down to the Derry Rite Aid to pick up a refill on her sinus medicine presciption -- this is stuff you can buy over the counter these days, I believe.

Bag of Bones by Stephen King
 
The prey was running late. The horseman checked his pistol and returned
the weapon to the leather holster concealed beneath his riding cloak.

James Mc Gee's "Ratcatcher".
 
The evening his master died he worked again well after he ended the day for the other adults, his won wife among them, and sent them back with hunger and tiredness to their cabins.



The Known World by Edward P. Jones
 
"The third gong, announcing that the opera was about to continue, sounded discreetly through the tables and bars of Teatro La Fenice."

Death at La Fenice - Donna Leon
 
It's only life; we all get through it.

--Odd Hours by Dean Koontz
(great series with an unforgettable lead character!):lol:
 
Each player understood the obstacles to winning the Stanley Cup that season, 1967, and some felt the undeniable decay that was already eating at the foundation of their team, the Toronto Maple Leafs.

-- '67: the Maple Leafs, their sensational victory, and the end of an empire by Damien Cox & Gord Stellick
 
The story, so far removed in time and space and so far-fetched, seemed an exotic fabrication when I first heard it from my uncle's lips, those lips with a hint of sly smile at the upturned corners, just enough to crinkle crow's feet round his eyes.

Ink - Hal DUncan
 
The woman with the pink velvet poppies twined round the assisted gold of her hair traversed the crowded room at an interesting gait combining a skip with a sidle, and clutched the lean arm of her host.


The Best of Dorothy Parker - Arrangement in Black and White
 
"He -- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it -- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which hung from the ceiling."

Orlando - Virginia Woolf
 
"So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by
and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness."

Beowulf - Seamus Heaney (translator)
 
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