Let's play Hunny's game: "Pieces of you "

[rossshow]

http://www.otwa.com/community/showthread.php?t=36037


The game:

1. Grab the nearest book.

2. Open the book to page 171 (if it has less than 171 pages, you may want to reconsider your book selections).

3. Find the first Sentence of the 4th paragraph.

4. Post the sentence here

5. Don’t search around for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually closest.

(If the page has less than 4 paragraphs post the first sentence of the last paragraph)

(Naming the title of book is optional)

[rossshow]

He rose, moved slowly into the hut and dragged from thence the ancient black oak chest that Hugh had been wondering about since he had first seen it.

From a customer's book that's about to get wrapped up and sent.

The Hidden Treasure of Glaston (King Arthur's Secret) by Eleanore M. Jewett

[george]

shakes fist and says curse penthouse fourm and there 169 pages!

[newslady]

"I couldn't very well tell her I felt too tired to go; So I swallowed my real feelings and followed her up the street."

Memoirs of a Geisha

[bluekazoo]

"Almost There" by Nuala O'Faolain

(oversized print edition)

"It was something that we were meeting, because we are the remnant of a family who never went on a family holiday, nor even a family outing, not even once, and for whom every shared meal was perilous."

[kim]

..."It has already been seen that the longbow represented a technical improvement in range and especially in rapidity of shooting."...

- The Art of Warfare in Western Europe During the Middle Ages - J.F. Bruggen...

[sadie999]

Different book than the one I was reading when I answered at OTWA:

You want to clear things up in your mind and handle situations (or communications) effectively.

[Parklane64]

"What's the name of this group?"

[Heartland]

"In 1906 Red Wing and Minnesota merged to form the Red Wing Union Stoneware Company."

Miller's Twentieth-Century Ceramics

[blissmeister]

This beautifully preserved panel depicts a river landscape with the Pelkuspoort, a gateway near Utrecht; now demolished, it was a popular subject for artists of the period."

Christie's June/July/August 2003

[ssnafu]

Yes,but the Sangreal Documents are only half of the Holy Grail treasure.



The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

[luculent]

Because it's boring.



"State of Fear" by Michael Crichton

[sibs ling]

"Martin, what is it, what's happened?" she said.


The Lilac Bus by Maeve Binchy

[newslady]

She looked at me and sighed, clearly hating to have this conversation at all. "Condoms."

I Wish I Had a Red Dress ~ Pearl Cleage

[newslady]

Ben watched the butternut bull come humping out of the gate like he had a cow's butt under him, humping and bucking, wanting this boy off his back in a hurry, the bull throwing his hindquarters in the air now with a hard twist, Nitro humping and twisting in a circle, Stubby's free hand reaching out for balance, the bull humping and twisting his "caboose," Owen called it, right up to the buzzer and Stubby let go to be flung in the air, whipped from the bull to land hard in the arena dirt.

When the Women Came Out to Dance ~ Elmore Leonard

[mbogoo]

"The kid tried his level best to plant the blade in Hogan's neck, but the van had begun to tilt by then, running deeper and deeper into the sand-choked gully."

("Chattery Teeth" from Stephen King's Nightmares and Dreamscapes)

I don't think I could have picked a stranger quote if I'd tried :1crazy:

[FLvamp]

The skirt itself was normally embroidered - often with pearls - as were the stockings, while the skirt has alternating vertical bands of gold and silver lamé.
--The Historical Encyclopedia of Costumes, Albert Racinet

[luculent]

In fact, you can mess yourself up if you select more than the first cell of the destination range and the selected range doesn't exactly match the size and shape of the selection you're moving.



Excel 2000 for Dummies (I will conquer Excel)

[kim]

okay - if newsy's going to post more pages - so am i...

..."I cannot quite say what I felt when the foreman in charge of the delivery wagons assured me that Berty Fenn had not worked at their brewery for many weeks."...

- A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss...

[Heartland]

Wu Lien was still afraid of his guards and he dared not ask them to lift a horse nor could he do it himself, and so he could do nothing but get down and beat on the gate and when the little window in it opened and the gateman's old face peered out he had to say, as though he were his own servant: "I am Wu Lien, and I am come for my household."

Dragon Seed, by Pearl S. Buck

[thentavius]

"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines."

--Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass, 1860 edition

[newslady]

Dusa :2headspin This time, I;m gonn apost the entire two-sentence paragraph.

Ever since last night the man had been popping TUMS like peanuts, TUMS and shots of Pepto-Bismol. He'd taken sick while trying to clean blood from the carpeting, most of it where the S&L man's head had come out of the blanket bumping down the stairs, Bobby dragging the body and not caring he was leaving a trail; the stains still there like rust spots.

Riding The Rap ~ Elmore Leonard

[ssnafu]

In 1990,there were only thirty-four firearm-related homicides in Switzerland. Three times more persons were killed while mountain climbing.



Guns, Crime, and Freedom/by Wayne LaPierre