Sentence examples for its opening words from inspiring English sources

In trying to sum up the unique genius of the King James Bible, you need go no further than its opening words.

The story begins twice, once as a ghost story with its opening words "Marley was dead, to begin with" and then again, on its third page, with "Once upon a time".

The statute (1290) generally referred to by its opening words, Quia emptores terrarum... ("because sellers of lands... .), called the Third Statute of Westminster by a contemporary chronicler, forbade subinfeudation (the letting out of parcels of land upon feudal tenure) in an attempt to restrict practices that cheated existing lords of their dues.

The Statute of 1290, generally referred to by its opening words, Quia emptores terrarum ("because sellers of lands"), barred the granting of new feudal rights, except by the crown, and made all land held in fee simple freely transferable by denying interference by relatives or feudal lords.

Its opening words, "The Middle East peace process is finished," set the unsparing tone, before Judt went on to say that the very idea of an ethnic Jewish state had become an anachronism, and should be succeeded by a binational state.

This covert observation at least gave me a reason to look back at Wallace's essay, and I was immediately struck by the similarity of its opening words to those of John McPhee's "Levels of the Game," which I wrote about earlier this week.

It was boiled to his opening words: "But I do feel appreciative!

But of the content of his talk all I remember are his opening words: "For me, death is already sounding its high C".

I'll never forget his opening words: "When I'm in the classroom here, the walls come down".

The pressure of the midday heat on Meursault before his fatal act was much debated, as was the import of his opening words: "Mother died today.

Monsieur Clemenceau, in his opening words, struck the note of the afternoon: "The time has come when we must settle our account.