When my ass was 19 years old... ...I changed the face of professional baseball. Well, any baseball fan has gotta love this. Bottom of the ninth inning, Game 7, bases loaded, two out... ...and...
VOLUME I CHAPTER I Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one...
You’ve probably already noticed that the book we’re using in class is quite a bit different than most traditional textbooks. So I wanted to start off this first chapter by telling you just a little...
CHAPTER I To my former teacher HATTIE GORDON SMITH in grateful remembrance of her sympathy and encouragement. Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty, Our hard, stiff lines...
CHAPTER I. The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and...
CHAPTER 1. STORY OF THE DOOR Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long,...
CHAPTER I In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor,...
CHAPTER I. One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER I. On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 1 ON THE LOOK OUT In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance,...