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This is a game I got from another site and figured it would be fun!
Turn to page 47 of the book nearest you and post the first two sentences here. No cursing, violence, or anything that would get people upset.
My example - Hunger Games: Catching Fire
"'Not in District Eleven,' says Effie. District 11."
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"Just then, the young Fierce Dog stepped out from behind a tree, wobbling badly.
Lucky took in his appearance with a gasp."
- Survivors (#6) by Erin Hunter.
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"I release something I created before the dawn of time; re-absorb that fragment of myself I placed inside it..now. Cain, your turn."
-Sandman by Neil Gaiman
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"At least the minute they had contrived some naughty plan of revenge; and many a time I've cried to myself to watch them growing more reckless daily, and I not daring to speak a syllable, for fear of losing the small power I still retained over the unfriended creatures."
-Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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"The moon had risen higher, and floating in the Sound was a triangle of silver scales, trembling a little to the stiff, tinny drip of the banjoes on the lawn.
I was still with Jordan Baker."
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Lunar Chronicles: Cinder by Marissa Meyer
"Cinder sighed. 'Fine.'"
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"The skull knocker seemed to smile at her, its hollow eyes boring into hers.
Gods above, she should just leave."
- Crown of Midnight, Sarah J. Maas
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"For a while we walked only to the sound of grass crunching beneath our feet, but as the sun rose higher, the birdsong swelled around us. Shrikes and sparrows twittered in the low brush, while hunting goshawks, their pale bellies flashing in the sunlight, cut the sky above."
-Kalahari by Jessica Khoury
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"Chapter II
Modern motor fuels and oils"
1940 motor book that i can't really read the cover of because it's faded
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"'Mutt, Come here!' Mimi called, her voice sharp with surprise."
-The Key to Rondo by Emily Rodda
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Ublaz leaned over, his silver dagger tapping a bark parchment and charcoal sticks, which lay on the table in front of the corsair. "You saw the six pearls, did you not, felt them, noted their shape, held the shell in which they were kept?" he snapped.
Redwall: Pearls of Lutra by Brian Jacques
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'Viridius, sprawled on his gout couch, had already started conducting the castle choir by the time I arrived, breathless, breakfast rolls in hand. He glared at me; his beetling brows were still mostly red, though the fringe of hair around his head was a shocking white.'
Seraphina
by Rachel Hartman
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XLIV. Ic Ine, mid godes gife Wesseaxna kyning, mid ge-oeahte ond mid lare Cenredes mmines faeder ond Heddes mines biscepes ond Eorcenwoldes Mines bicepes, Mid eallum minum ealdormonnom ond paem
(Ok i'll stop there i can't be bothered typing out all of that. And i had to substitute half the letters for ones that exist on my keyboard)
From Sweets Anglo-Saxon Reader 14th edition, revised by C.T. Onions.
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"Because he was so horrible to look at? "Rainflower was upset," Oakkit told him,"
Warriors Super Edition: Crookedstar's Promise by Erin Hunter