| Author |
Quotes |
| Bess Streeter Aldrich | In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream. |
| Bess Streeter Aldrich | It was the first Tuesday in August. The Nebraska heat rolled in upon one like the engulfing waves of a dry sea,--a thick material substance against which one seemed to push when moving about. |
| Brian W Aldiss | To stretch his legs between consultations, Maclean escorted his last patient to Baker Street station. |
| Brian W Aldiss | Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, spreading riotous and strange in their instinct for growth. |
| Chinua Achebe | Okonwko was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. |
| David A Adler | It was a cold winter Sunday afternoon. |
| Douglas Adams | Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. |
| Edmond About | At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of nothing in particular, I perceived coming towards me, a tall, beardless, fair-haired young fellow, wearing a German cap and gold-rimmed spectacles. |
| Henry Brooks Adams | For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington. |
| James Agee | We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child. |
| Lee K Abbott | According to the tapes, my father, then about as run-of-the-mill as Joe Blow himself, didn't want to see the thing. |
| Louisa May Alcott | "Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him. |
| Louisa May Alcott | "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. |
| Richard Adams | The primroses were over. |
| Unattributed Author | Cricket is a game that owes much of its unique appeal to the fact that it should be played not only within its Laws but also within the Spirit of the Game. |
| Unattributed Author | Baseball is a game between two teams of nine players each, under direction of a manager, played on an enclosed field in accordance with these rules, under jurisdiction of one or more umpires. |
| William Harrison Ainsworth | One night, at the latter end of April 1665, the family of a citizen of London carrying on an extensive business as a grocer in Wood Street, Cheapside, were assembled, according to custom, at prayer. |
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