The "A" List

hipdeep: "All this happened, more or less."

hipdeep: "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do."

merrystar: "Ashton Hilary Akbar Pelham-Martyn was born in a camp near the crest of a pass in the Himalayas, and subsequently christened in a patent canvas bucket."

hipdeep: "Autumn had come too swiftly."

hipdeep: "At the beginning of the summer I had lunch with my father, the gangster, who was in town for the weekend to transact some of his vague business."

hipdeep: "Along with the recent explosion of interest in food and cooking has come a growing desire to understand the chemical and physical properties and behavior of our foods."

hipdeep: "At Kilmainham, in a palatial building on the western edge of Dublin, fifty-six-year-old General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell, Knight of the Order of the Bath, Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, Commander of the Victorian Order and Distinguished Service Order, the new General Officer Commanding His Majesty's armed forces in Ireland, was coughing like a donkey on his first cigarette of the day."

hipdeep: "At New York in 1977, Reggie hit three home runs in a game to win the World Series."

hipdeep: "As the last decade of the century approaches, and as we look back at what should remain alive in the next, there seems a good chance that Southern literature of the twentieth century will will be remembered and read as one of the permanent gifts of modern times."

hipdeep: "At its roots, Toronto is an Anglo-Celtic city."