"Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed..."

"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since..."

"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was..."

"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins..."

"A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories..."

"Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting..."

"It was love at first sight..."

"The cell door slammed behind Rubashov..."

"The Bottoms" succeeded to "Hell Row..."

"To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth..."

"Two mountain chains traverse the republic roughly from north to south, forming between them a number of valleys and plateaus..."

"When I was a small boy at the beginning of the century I remember an old man who wore knee-breeches and worsted stocking, and who..."

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen..."

"Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago..."

"YES, of course, if it's fine tomorrow," said Mrs. Ramsay..."

"Dusk-of a summer night..."

"In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together..."

"All this happened, more or less..."

"It goes a long way back, some twenty years..."

"BRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNG! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room..."

"What made me take this trip to Africa?"...

"Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just..."

"when you walk along the street you have to step carefully always on the cobbles so as not to step on the bright anxious grassblades..."

"The writer, an old man with a white mustache, had some difficulty in getting into bed.'..."

"Except for the Marabar Caves-and they are twenty miles off-the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary..."

"She couldn't dream it away, nor walk it away, nor read it away, nor think it away ..."

"Strether's first question, when he reached the hotel, was about his friend; yet on his learning that Waymarsh was apparently not to arrive till..."

"On the pleasant shore of the French Riviera, about half-way between Marseilles and the Italian border, stands a large, proud, rose-colored hotel..."

"STUDS LONIGAN, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted in..."

"THIS is the saddest story I have ever heard..."

"Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the henhouse for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes..."

"The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him..."

"When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch..."

"Was anyone hurt?..."

"Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file..."

"You follow Highway 58, going north-east out of the city, and it is a good highway and new..."

"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below..."

"One may as well begin with Helen's letter to her sister..."

"Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father..."

"Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the ironwork..."

"The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon..."

"It unrolled slowly, forced to show its colors, curling and snapping back whenever one of us turned loose..."

"The men at work at the corner of the street had made a kind of camp for themselves, where, marked by tripods hung with red hurricane lamps ..."

"We have known General Conyers immemorially not because my father had served under him..."

"Snow from yesterday's fall still lay in patches and the morning air was glacial..."

"Reverting to the university at forty..."

" 'You won't be late?' There was anxiety in Marjorie Carling's voice, there was something..."

"Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think that I am very much impressed..."

"The bell, hung on the door by means of a curved ribbon of steel, was difficult to circumvent..."

"In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco-the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its..."

"The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire..."

"Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the large window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking..."

"I am living at the Villa Borghese..."

"Nobody could sleep..."

"She was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seem to have believed that each of my teachers..."

"I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the falls azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff-and I Lived on..."

"Sitting beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill toward her, Lena thinks, 'I have come from Alabama: a fur piece..."

"I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up..."

"Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth..."

"Edward had heard of this..."

"On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York..."

"That old bell, presage of a train, had just sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates who were waiting there, gay figures in tweed or..."

"This morning I got a note from my aunt asking me to come for lunch..."

"One afternoon in the autumn of 1851 a solitary horseman, followed by a pack-mule, was pushing through an arid stretch of country somewhere in central..."

"When he finished packing, he walked out on to the third-floor porch of the barracks brushing the dust from his hands, a very neat and..."

"St. Botolphs was an old place, an old river town..."

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know ..."

'What's it going to be then, eh?'..."

"The day broke grey and dull..."

"The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest..."

"On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the cornflower blue of Northern sky..."

"Selden paused in surprise..."

"The freeze-up on Black Bear Lake is a prelude to winter..."

"Landscape-tones: brown to bronze, steep skyline, low cloud, pearl ground with shadowed oyster and violet reflections..."

"As a junior of exceptional promise, he had been sent to Egypt for a year in order to improve his Arabic and he found himself..."

"The oranges were more plentiful than usual that year..."

"One of the fruits of Emancipation in the West Indian islands is the number of the ruins, either attached to the houses that remain or..."

"Shortly before he was born there had been another quarrel between Mr Biswas's mother Bipti and his father Raghu, and Bipti had taken her three..."

"Around quitting time, Tod Hackett heard a great din on the road outside his office..."

"In the late summer of that year we lived in a house that looked across the river ..."

While still a young man John Courteney Boot had, as his publisher proclaimed, "achieved an assured and enviable position in contemporary letters..."

"The boys, as they talked to the girls from Marcia Blaine School, stood on the far side of their bicycles holding the handlebars, which established..."

"riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend if bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs..."

"He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher - the Wonder House, as the..."

"'The Signora had no business to do it,' said Miss Bartlett, 'no business at all. She promised us...'"

"I have been here before," I said; I had been there before; first with Sebastian more than twenty years ago on a cloudless day in..."

"I am an American, Chicago born-Chicago, that somber city-and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my..."

"Now I believe they will leave me alone..."

"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it..."

"That morning's ice, no more than a brittle film had cracked and was now..."

"He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head..."

"In 1902 Father built a house at the crest of the Broadview Avenue hill in New Rochelle, New York..."

"Those two girls, Constance and Sophia Baines, paid no heed to the manifold interest of their situation, of which, indeed, they had never been conscious..."

"Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tidewater dog, strong..."

"Once upon a day an old butler called Elden lay dying in his room..."

"I was born in the city of Bombay...once upon a time..."

Lov Bensey trudged homeward through the deep white sand of the gully-washed tobacco road with a sack of winter turnips on his back..."

"Riding up the winding road of Saint Agnes Cemetery in the back of the rattling old truck..."

"I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently..."

"They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did..."

"When I saw Finn waiting for me at the corner of the street I knew at once that something had gone wrong..."

"In those days cheap apartments were almost impossible to find in Manhattan, so I had to move to Brooklyn..."

"He awoke, opened his eyes..."

"They threw me off the hay truck..."

"Today a rare sun of spring..."

"Major Amberson had "made a fortune" in 1873, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then..."