List: The 20th Centrury's Greatest Hits by American Book Review
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Bottom half of the seventh, Brock's boy had made it through another inning unscratched, one! two! three! Twenty-one down and just six outs to go! and Henry's heart was racing, he was sweating with relief and tension all at once, unable to sit, unable to think, <i>in</i> there, <i>with</i> them! Oh yes, boys, it was on! He was sure of it! More than just another ball game now: <i>history!</i>
Ulysses
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
Lolita
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palette to tap, at three, on the teeth.
The Making of Americans
Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard.
Ironweed
Riding up the winding road of Saint Agnes Cemetery in the back of the rattling old truck, Francis Phelan became aware that the dead, even more than the living, settled down in neighborhoods.
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