1. "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..."
2. "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November."
3. "Animals talk to each other, of course."
4. "I was born at Stewton, a small village near Louth, in Lincolnshire, where my parents dying while I was very young, and leaving me unprovided for, Mr. Gwillam, a respectable farmer of that place, took me into his family, where I lived for about three years, and met with the kindest treatment."
5. "Daddy said it was a bedsheet, a fitted bedsheet, and he said she was wearing it up on her shoulders like a cape with two of the corners knotted around her neck."
6. "In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached an unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul."
"Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress."
8. "Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote the droghte of March has perced to the roote and bathed every veyne in swich licour of which vertu engerdred is the flour..."
9. "The music-room in the Governor's house at Port Mahon, a tall, handsome, pillared octagon,was filled with the triumphant first movement of Locatelli's C major quartet.
10. "The king's son was going to be married, so there was general rejoicings."
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#1 A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens #2 The name of the rose. #6 Dune, Frank Herbert #7 Middlemarch by George Eliot #8 THE CANTERBURY TALES #9 The gunroom #10 The Remarkable Rocket, O.Wilde
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Remarkable, Mozart, this is great. It leaves only these to solve:
3. "Animals talk to each other, of course."
4. "I was born at Stewton, a small village near Louth, in Lincolnshire, where my parents dying while I was very young, and leaving me unprovided for, Mr. Gwillam, a respectable farmer of that place, took me into his family, where I lived for about three years, and met with the kindest treatment."
5. "Daddy said it was a bedsheet, a fitted bedsheet, and he said she was wearing it up on her shoulders like a cape with two of the corners knotted around her neck."
9. "The music-room in the Governor's house at Port Mahon, a tall, handsome, pillared octagon,was filled with the triumphant first movement of Locatelli's C major quartet.
(It may help to know I just picked books at random out of fiction section of my bookshelves. There is no 'theme' to this question.)
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"I was born at Stewton, a small village near Louth, in Lincolnshire, where my parents dying while I was very young, and leaving me unprovided for, Mr. Gwillam, a respectable farmer of that place, took me into his family, where I lived for about three years, and met with the kindest treatment."
Clue: It was first published in 1796 and the author was a retired seaman.
It is one of the best 'reads' ever.
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