96 Points
"The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it 'the Riddle House', even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there."
6 Points
"Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an..."
21 Points
"I’ll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling:..."
12 Points
"The storm had broken."
134 Points
20 Points
"In merry England in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades of Sherwood Forest, near Nottingham Town, a famous outlaw whose name was..."
162 Points
"The time has now come for me to hear a step in the passage," said Bernard to himself.
69 Points
"The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have..."
24 Points
"Mrs Palfrey first came to the Claremont Hotel on a Sunday afternoon in January."
86 Points
"I reached out a hand from under the blankets, and rang the bell for Jeeves."