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On Wednesday evenings Paul's mother took the tram from her work in the City Hall to the mid-week service at Merrion Chapel and he usually walked over from the university, after his five o'clock philosophy class, to meet her as she came out. But on this particular Wednesday, his interview with Professor Slade kept him late and, with a glance at his watch, he decided to go straight home. - Beyond This Place [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK On a damp evening in December, the fifth of that month, in the year 1919--a date which marked the beginning of a great change in my life--six o'clock had struck from the University tower and the soft mist from the Eldon River was creeping round the Experimental Pathology buildings at the foot of Fenner Hill, invading our long work-room that smelled faintly of formalin, and was lit only by low, green-shaded lamps. - Shannon's Way [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Late one October afternoon in the year 1921, a shabby young man gazed with fixed intensity through the window of a third-class compartment in the almost empty train labouring up the Penowell valley from Swansea. - The Citadel [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Holding Mama's hand tightly, I came out of the dark arches of the railway station and into the bright streets of the strange town. - The Green Years [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Late one afternoon in September 1938 old Father Francis Chisholm limped up the steep path from the church of St. Columba to his house upon the hill. - The Keys of the Kingdom [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK When she had finished dressing, Lucy went to her bedroom window, but there was still no sign of Frank. And absently she stood behind the long lace curtain, letting her eyes mirror the white stretch of road which followed the estuary shore towards the town, nearly a mile away. - Three Loves (book I, ch. I) [Books (First Lines)]
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