70 Points
"Brenda was six when she fell out of the apple tree."
291 Points
"Idle reader, you can believe without any oath of mine that I would wish this book, as the child of my brain, to be the most beautiful, the liveliest and the cleverest imaginable.Prologue: Idle..."
29 Points
"While Pearl Tull was dying, a funny thought occurred to her."
89 Points
"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 deceptively slim young man in the summer khakis that were still..."
43 Points
"The first place that I can well remember, was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it."
26 Points
"For a week Mr. R. Childan had been anxiously watching the mail."
91 Points
"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low..."
18 Points
"One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away. A mist of fine snowflakes was curling and eddying about the..."
69 Points
"James MacFadden died in March 1905 when he was forty-seven years old; he was riding in the Driffield Point-to-Point."
96 Points
"Should he try to raise the mosquito-netting?"