Who would have thought the longest
first sentence among these 100 books would come from a children's book: Anne of Green Gables.
Not exact matches
With the meting out of more mandatory
sentences for drunk driving, the number of suicides
among first offenders is likely to increase significantly.
For example, Philip H. Ashby, The Conflict of Religions (New York, 1955), the
first work of the
first scholar in this field at Princeton, is a discussion «concerning the possible contributions of the religions of the world to the amelioration of the problems of mankind» (p. 192; opening
sentence of the concluding chapter); the author is concerned to show that man (sic) can meet the terrible problems that confront him today if he can replace the «conflict»
among his various religions with a «combined witness» (p. viii).
«The
first national comparison of test scores
among children in charter schools and regular public schools shows charter school students often doing worse than comparable students in regular public schools,» read the opening
sentence.
Nordan announces his comic talent to the world in the opening
sentence of the opening story, «Sugar
Among the Chickens,» of his
first collection, The All - Girl Football Team: «I had been fishing for an hour and still hadn't caught anything.
The article is peppered with plenty of nonsense, the
first example of which occurs as early as the second
sentence, where the author states that HTC, founded 20 years ago and once ranked
among the world's top smartphone makers, is a «fledgling Taiwanese company.»
The
first sentence cleverly reveals both her overall demeanor as a teacher and the fact that she lived in France long enough to acquire perfect language fluency
among native speakers.