Sentence examples for opening of chapter from inspiring English sources

At the opening of Chapter 4 our heroes seem to have reached one of their many dead ends.

At the opening of Chapter 2, we see the boy, now fifteen years old, home on vacation from his military school.

So the reader receives a jolt at the opening of chapter 15, more than halfway through the book, when we are taken beyond documentary evidence.

The opening of chapter nine is a superb example of this, narrating the decline of Liverpool as a city and the emergence of 'casual' culture as an introduction to Liverpool's first continental away fixture of the season at BK Odense.

This is reminiscent of the story in the opening of Chapter Two, where the tourist comes to the inn and puts a $100 bill on the counter and while he's investigating the accommodations, several towns-people circulate the $100 to pay off their debts.

The opening sentence of Chapter 1 promises much: "The history of financial innovation is also the story of human advance". But what follows is lined with unsubstantiated ­assertions and cherry-picked history.

His main function was to offer readings to replace the 18th-century sermon – the opening verses of chapter one of St John's Gospel, Psalm 22, and TS Eliot's poem Ash Wednesday – something he managed with consummate understatement and discretion.

Looking at DeLillo's "White Noise" again, I'm struck by the opening line of Chapter 5: "Let's enjoy these aimless days while we can, I told myself, fearing some kind of deft acceleration".

The reference to his temporibus 'at this time' in the opening lines of Chapter 25 may refer more generally to Cædmon's career as a poet.

I loved the way the opening of each chapter is presented as documentary evidence.

At the opening of every chapter, after an animal's classification, its conservation status is given, from "not listed" through to "extinct".