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[Bacigalupo]

Largness of organ is proof positive that it has been cultivated.

 

[badbabysitter]

He'd worked it out; he had probably discussed it with the nuns.

 

[Bacigalupo]

And, as Congressman Tip O'Neill said about politics, ultimately all history is local--it happened here.

 

[SpringKiss]

Oddly fitting for this website.

"I'd take one of them girls out in the grass, an' I'd lay with her." - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

 

[Bacigalupo]

There are two reptilian clades.

 

[Maid of Marvels]

"He just appeared on the scene in '54 as a petty criminal with a literary edge and has worked his way steadily upward to being number three on the planet's most-wanted list."

The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde

 

[voyager102]

Above him, the monster chewed on the long rib bone, gnawing and slurping.

 

[stalwartone]

Except for Kilrain, he was the oldest man in the regiment, the strongest man Chamberlain had ever seen.

The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara

 

[Maid of Marvels]

"The madhouse has chucked me out," said Harry. "So I can do...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling

 

[Bacigalupo]

His current research focuses on small theropods, the orgin of birds, and ceratopsian behavior.

 

[Original_Cyn2]

Page 28, Sentence 10

"But you did not show your fear," said he.

Nomads of Gor - John Norman​

 

[Maid of Marvels]

hailed from the kingdom of Mittanis, far from Egypt's borders in Mesopotamia.

 

[Bacigalupo]

The senator thought a moment, then shook his head.

 

[Demos Straxus]

Once again, he admired the woman's efficiency.

-IKS Gorkon, book three: Enemy Territory


(Makes mental note for a Klingon RPG later one)

 

[November Rain]

That was the main reason one of the last remaining wild bands of Lesser Smokey Mountain Trolls lived in the area.

Blue Moon by Laurell K. Hamilton

 

[OnHarry]

The old people in the bed all leaned forward, craning their scraggy necks.

No points for guessing that one.

 

[Logan2]

Around her neck she wore a fur stole made from foxtailes tied together.

 

[Original_Cyn2]

OK...how weird is that, I looked at Bacigalupo's avatar, thought of Willie Wonka and then like magic, your quote appears. I can only surmise you did the same?

The old people in the bed all leaned forward, craning their scraggy necks.

No points for guessing that one.

 

[Maid of Marvels]

Baci's av is Dr. Who and one of those Dalek thingies.

 

[Original_Cyn2]

LOL well, now I feel foolish...but that makes it that much weirder *laughing*

 

[Elayne]

Though it was not cold, she too had drawn her mantle about her and stood very straight, her eyes intent.

(I think Original-Cyn wins with the Gor quote.)

 

[BriefcaseRonin]

In the cracks between sanity and madness, things walk those darkened streets.

 

[Lonely_Hunter]

But she said:"Lo,let all those of the folk of the Elves or the children of Men that are bound within these walls be brought forth," and behold Beren was brought forth but of other thralls there were none, save only Gimli, an aged Gnome, bent in thralldom and grown blind, but whose hearing was the keenest that has been in all the world, as all the songs say.

 

[shadowoftheheart]

This one may be less evident than I had hoped it would be:

The newspapers have printed the bulletins we sent from the moving plane; telling of our non-stop course, our two battles with treacherous upper-air gales, our glimpse of the broken surface where Lake had sunk his mid-journey shaft three days before, and our sight of a group of those strange fluffy snow-cylinders noted by Amundsen and Byrd as rolling in the wind across the endless leagues of frozen plateau.

One sentence earlier and everyone would be able to guess the author at least.

 

[Maid of Marvels]

Nods... and we'd NEVER get it from the 10th sentence on the 28th page for sure.