At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road.

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Thunder sounded, very near, and the child woke.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

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All the June Saturday afternoon Sam Pollit's children were on the lookout for him as they skated round the dirt sidewalks and seamed old asphalt of R Street and Reservoir Road that bounded the deep-grassed acres of Tohoga House, their home.

Christina Stead

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You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.

Italo Calvino

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Although I'm afraid I don't get too many clients these days!

Patrick McCabe

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Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway.

Zadie Smith

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At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring.

Charles Frazier

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Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it.

Evan S. Connell

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Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.

Kent Haruf

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Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days.

P.D. James

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