Opening line:
The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
September 6, 2009 at 11:45 am (fiction, Opening lines, Sinclair Lewis)
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
September 6, 2009 at 11:29 am (fiction, Opening lines, Sinclair Lewis)
Opening lines:
Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk.
17 Days in December 