adventure
First: Call me Ishmael.
Last: It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.
First: Punctually at six o'clock the sun set with a last yellow flash behind the Blue Mountains, a wave of violet shadow poured down Richmond Road, and the crickets and tree frogs in the fine gardens began to zing and tinkle.
Last: "Do as you're told."
First: "Tom!"
Last: I'll stick to the widder till I rot, Tom; and if I git to be a reg'lar ripper of a robber, and everybody talking 'bout it, I reckon she'll be proud she snaked me in out of the wet.
First: 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.
Last: O Agnes, O my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward!
First: Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Last: The other kids at school nicknamed him Ix, which in the language of Betelgeuse Five translates as "boy who is not able satisfactorily to explain what a Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven".
First: I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.
Last: All these things, with some very surprising incidents in some new adventures of my own, for ten years more, I shall give a farther account of in the Second Part of my Story.
First: The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.
Last: He turned away to give them time to pull themselves together; and waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser in the distance.
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