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  2. It was a dark and stormy night - Wikipedia

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    It is the opening line in the 1962 novel A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. [13] [14] L'Engle biographer Leonard Marcus notes that "With a wink to the reader, she chose for the opening line of A Wrinkle in Time, her most audaciously original work of fiction, that hoariest of cliches ... L'Engle herself was certainly aware of old warhorse's ...

  3. Opening sentence - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] One of the most famous opening lines, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times", starts a sentence of 118 words [4] that draws the reader in by its contradiction; the first sentence of the novel, Yes even contains 477 words. Moby-Dick's "Call me Ishmael." is an example of a short opening sentence.

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  6. Land Shark (Saturday Night Live) - Wikipedia

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    The Land Shark (also land shark, landshark, LandShark) was a recurring character from the sketch comedy television series Saturday Night Live.. The character first appeared during the show's debut season in the fall of 1975 as a response to the release of the film Jaws [1] and the subsequent hysteria over purported shark sightings.

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  8. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog - Wikipedia

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    By the turn of the 20th century, the phrase had become widely known. In the January 10, 1903, issue of Pitman's Phonetic Journal, it is referred to as "the well known memorized typing line embracing all the letters of the alphabet". [7] Robert Baden-Powell's book Scouting for Boys (1908) uses the phrase as a practice sentence for signaling. [5]

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