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Special Chance at the Contest!

6/30/2015

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Today I'm giving away a copy of Codes by Briane Pagel. 

As a special thing for the blog, I'll post the puzzle here first, and then if nobody answers by tonight I'll post directly to facebook and twitter. Please remember our rules 1)you have to live in the contiguous 48 or be willing to pay shipping yourself, 2) this has to be legal where you are, and 3) you have to be a real person.

Bit first I'm going to make you scroll way down.

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Below is a paragraph composed of five sentences. Each of these sentences is taken from an out of copyright work of fiction. Your challange, should you choose to accept it, is to identify each work, and give me back the title, author, and paragraph our sentence was used in. Just to make things interesting a couple of sentences are missing a word or two. Happy googling.

"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. The fields were spread with growth, and the waters clad with sunshine, and light and shadow, step by step, wandered over the furzy cleves. Since we had entered the territory we had not seen a hostile Indian, and we had, therefore, become careless in the extreme, and were wont to ridicule the stories we had heard of the great numbers of these vicious marauders that were supposed to haunt the trails, taking their toll in lives and torture of every white party which fell into their merciless clutches. The Judge was at a meeting of the Raisin Growers' Association, and the boys were busy organizing an athletic club, on the memorable night of Manuel's treachery. Saturday was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life."

So there it is. Five sentences from five works. Best of luck to you!
6 Comments
Ash
6/30/2015 08:45:37 am

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Jules
6/30/2015 08:59:49 am

I kind of think neither of you replied with Reply! Weebly's having a minute.

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Jamie
6/30/2015 08:56:33 am

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Joy L Wrolson
7/1/2015 10:14:22 am

Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question.
Lorna Doone, Richard D Blackmore
But when the weather changed in earnest, and the frost was gone, and the south-west wind blew softly, and the lambs were at play with the daisies, it was more than I could do to keep from thought of Lorna. For now the fields were spread with growth, and the waters clad with sunshine, and light and shadow, step by step, wandered over the furzy cleves. All the sides of the hilly wood were gathered in and out with green, silver-grey, or russet points, according to the several manner of the trees beginning. And if one stood beneath an elm, with any heart to look at it, lo! all the ground was strewn with flakes (too small to know their meaning), and all the sprays above were rasped and trembling with a redness. And so I stopped beneath the tree, and carved L.D. upon it, and wondered at the buds of thought that seemed to swell inside me.

Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Borroughs (the sentence is its own paragraph in the version I just saw.

The Call of the Wild, Jack London.
The Judge was at a meeting of the Raisin Growers' Association, and the boys were busy organizing an athletic club, on the memorable night of Manuel's treachery. No one saw him and Buck go off through the orchard on what Buck imagined was merely a stroll. And with the exception of a solitary man, no one saw them arrive at the little flag station known as College Park. This man talked with Manuel, and money chinked between them.

Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above it, was green with vegetation and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting.




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Jules
7/1/2015 11:33:00 am

Joy got them! Congrats to Joy! I'll contact you privately for your address.

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Briane Pagel link
7/4/2015 03:05:37 pm

Hey I only just saw this; sorry I missed it when you posted earlier this week. But thanks for the giveaway! (I've already got my copy anyway. Can't wait to see how it ends!)

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