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1. "Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York."
2. "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
3. "On a morning in mid-April, 1687, the brigantine 'Dolphin' left the open sea, sailed briskly across the Sound to the wide mouth of the Connecticut River and into Saybrook harbor."
4. "The scenes of this story, as its title indicates, lie among a race hitherto ignored by the associations of polite and refined society; an exotic race, whose ancestors, born beneath a tropic sun, brought with them, and perpetuated to their descendants, a character so essentially unlike the hard and dominant Anglo-Saxon race, as for many years to have won from it only misunderstanding and contempt."
5. "Matthias cut a comical little figure as he wobbled his way along the cloisters, with his large sandals flip-flopping and his tail peeping from beneath the baggy folds of an oversized novice's habit."
6. "I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, named Kreutznaer, who settled first at Hull."
7. "The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive."
8. "Algernon: Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?"
9. "My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name, Phillip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip."
10. "My New Year's Resolution by Princess Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Ronaldo, Age 14 years and 8 months"
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