Books you may remember from High School ...

"TOM!" Answer
A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes. Answer
Buck did not read the newspapers or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. Answer
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf stream and he had gone 84 days now without taking a fish. Answer
I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before. Answer
It was a pleasure to burn. Answer
A squat gray building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and in a shield, the World State's motto, Community, Identity, Stability. Answer
We are at rest five miles behind the front. Answer
He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull. Answer
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. Answer
Kino awakened in the near dark. Answer
On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. Answer
The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. Answer
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Answer
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn. Answer