Classic English Imports ....

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so. Answer
On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. Answer
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo. Answer
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Answer
A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace. Answer
1801-- I have just returned from a visit to my landlord -- the solitary neighbor that I shall be troubled with. Answer
My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. Answer
Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking. Answer
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.. Answer
The day broke gray and dull. Answer
Now, what I want is Facts. Answer
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. Answer
In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses -- and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oak -- there might be seen in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain pallid undersized men, who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race. Answer
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. Answer
While the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton's academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing harness, driven by a fat coachman in a three cornered hat and wig, at the rate of four miles an hour. Answer
This is the saddest story I have ever heard. Answer
Except for the Marabar Caves - and they are twenty miles off - the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary. Answer
This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve. Answer
When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view before me through the grey mist of early morning Answer
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and, as I slept, I dreamed a dream. Answer