Books (first lines) - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Cricket is a game that owes much of its unique appeal to the fact that it should be played not ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4613<![CDATA[1a 'a n, pl a's or as 'az often cap, often attrib (bef. 12c) 1 a : the 1st letter ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4614<![CDATA[Baseball is a game between two teams of nine players each, under direction of a manager, played on an enclosed ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4615<![CDATA[The morning was as dark and cold as city snow could make it--a dingy whirl at the window; a smoky ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4616<![CDATA[Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4617<![CDATA[According to the tapes, my father, then about as run-of-the-mill as Joe Blow himself, didn't want to see the thing. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4618<![CDATA[At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of nothing ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4619<![CDATA[No man can deny that Chief the Honourable M.A. Nanga, M.P. was the most approachable politician in the country. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4620<![CDATA[Okonwko was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4621<![CDATA[Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4622<![CDATA[For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4623<![CDATA[The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of October, in ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4624<![CDATA[The primroses were over. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4625<![CDATA[It was a cold winter Sunday afternoon. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4626<![CDATA[We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4627<![CDATA[Early one morning I, Vadim Maslennikov, set off for school (I was going on seventeen at the time) having forgotten ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4628<![CDATA[One night, at the latter end of April 1665, the family of a citizen of London carrying on an extensive ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4629<![CDATA[On the 10th of July 1553, about two hours after noon, a loud discharge of ordnance burst from the turrets ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4630<![CDATA[In the twentieth year of the reign of the right high and puissant King Henry the Eighth, namely, in 1529, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4631<![CDATA["Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4632<![CDATA["Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4633<![CDATA[To stretch his legs between consultations, Maclean escorted his last patient to Baker Street station. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4634<![CDATA[Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, spreading riotous and strange in their instinct for growth. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4635<![CDATA[In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4636<![CDATA[It was the first Tuesday in August. The Nebraska heat rolled in upon one like the engulfing waves of a ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4637