As the ordinary violence of dawn sweeps across the lower Coromandel coast, a sprawling village comes into view.
David DavidarTags: first-sentence
Marley was dead: to begin with.
Charles DickensTags: first-sentence
Baby," groaned the guy-Ted? Tad?-something like that-and crushed his lips against the side of her neck, shoving her face against the wall of the toilet stall.
Jennifer WeinerTags: first-sentence
This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.
Barbara KingsolverTags: food first-sentence
In the midst of a thick forest, there was a castle that gave shelter to all travelers overtaken by night on their journey: lords and ladies, royalty and their retinue, humble wayfarers.
Italo CalvinoTags: first-sentence
From above, start with the privileged view.
Maureen HowardTags: first-sentence
Stavia saw herself as in a picture, from the outside, a darkly cloaked figure moving along a cobbled street, the stones sheened with a soft, early spring rain.
Sheri S. TepperTags: first-sentence
Toward the end of February 1954, James Beard was at work in his Greenwich Village kitchen doing what he most loved to do: cooking delicious meals.
Laura ShapiroTags: food first-sentence
Women have always been spies.
Harriet RubinTags: women first-sentence
Jerrie Cobb reached down and pulled the heavy layers of arctic clothing over her navy blue linen dress.
Martha AckmannTags: first-sentence
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