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I'm trying this again, 5th sentence on p. 56 of all the books I'm reading. I'm interested to see what comes up!

"After I got back to the rear after Smith, there was some reluctance to go to the front again, a sort of nervous lassitude, but the instant I heard the heavy firing this was over." - Charles S. Wainwright, A Diary of Battle

"The skills and resources they applied to ensuring that their citizens were adequately fed are rarely brought to our attention, even though the fundamental importance of grain is evocatively illustrated by the ears of wheat or barley depicted on some of its coinage." - John Reader, Cities

"West of the bridge lay a warren of crumbling timber houses, shacks, and shanties spilling across the old fish market quay right down to the water's edge." - Neil Hanson, The Great Fire of London

"Stopping at the offices of the New York Sun, he placed a missing persons ad." - Daniel Stashower, The Beautiful Cigar Girl

"Both men had reached for their guns when they saw him, and he had wheeled his horse and hit the desert road at a dead run." - Louis L'Amour, Dutchman's Flat

"How gain love?" - Louisa May Alcott, Journals

"'I guess a cup of tea wouldn't hurt,' said Grandma." - Janet Evanovich, Two for the Dough

"This Congress will support the Massachusetts." - John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams