Pick up the book nearest to you ...

bandmaster n the conductor of a musical, esp brass, band.

Webster's New English Dictionary and Thesaurus

He'd kept only one secret from Nick before: the letters he used to rise up early for and collect from the postbox.

The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan

"Why do you tell me this?"

Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

"Reaching down with what seemed to me suicidal daring, Holmes simply pulled the fuse from the tin, dropped it on the floor, and rubbed it out with his boot."

The Italian Secretary, by Caleb Carr.


[Not Conan Doyle, but a 2005 novel in which Carr creates a Sherlock Holmes adventure in perfect Doyle style. A good read.]

"It's literature," he explained, as if to a child.

Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman

"It's no different from what your duties will be once you've started dating, actually."

98 Ways to Find a Great Guy by Elizabeth Hazel Paulson

"What was his name?"

Nighttime Is My Time by Mary Higgins Clark

"To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one's self and status."

Race Matters by Cornel West

*technically, the second closest book to me. The closest was an atlas.

"He further specified that 'Czech' would become the official state language, German would be used 'on an equal footing with Czech' in matters of administration, before the courts and in parliament; that all public offices would be open to all nationalities; that the voting system would ensure proportional representation for all nationalities; that state-funded schools in all relevant languages would be supplied according to the needs of local children; and that local administration would be conducted 'in the language of the majority of the population'.

From 'Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed' by Mary Heimann.

Does that get some sort of prize for being the longest. sentence. ever.?

Holly had popped out earlier and stopped to shower and change and take care of the mutt, but now it was her time.

Multiple Wounds by Alan Russell

"Mercedes and the old man rushed to meet the shipowner , and met him at the door. M. Morrel was very pale."

Count of Monte Cristo, Vol 1.- Alexandre Dumas

"I'm not saying you should use big words to impress readers; I'm saying you should use big words to increase your arsenal as a writer." -- Noah Lukeman, The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

“You are on orders from Him, Michael, remember that.”

Fangtales: Sanctuary, by Kelly Said.

Authority
Phrases A good leader is always a good follower: You can't fight City Hall.
Roget's Thesaurus in Dictionary Form.

"Lafitte boarding the Queen East Indiaman"

The Pirates Own Book by Charles Ellms

This page just had an illustration and one line.

I always have a pirate book nearby.

iLion said:

“You are on orders from Him, Michael, remember that.”

Fangtales: Sanctuary, by Kelly Said.

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oh how cool! you quoted my story, thank you iLion! *pirouettes with glee!*

Not sure how accurate my eReader is with page numbers but...

"She hates the sun." ~BLACKBIRDS by Chuck Wendig

Functions can query data using SELECT statements and can perform DML statements, such as INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE.
-- Oracle Database 11g PL/SQL Programming


[sigh] I'm at work right now...

"I hear where you now live/ it snows year-round."

Neon Vernacular, Yusef Komunyakaa

"den Sack schlagen, und des Esel meinen -- to accuse (an innocent) subordinate because one is afraid to go after the boss"
Barron's German Idioms.

"Honey... it's all right now."

- Kronos by Jeremy Robinson

"The USDA and other 'official' opinion makers say that more than two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese because we're inactive and gluttonous."

Wheat Belly by William Davis, MD

Wordy!

"The tray of fresh pasties the woman carried were hot and doubtless savory enough, but Grey's nose was still numbed with oil of wintergreen, and the memory of O'Connell's corpse fresh enough in mind to suppress his appetite."

Lord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon

Was it a spell cast on the imagination by the witches place?

The Vampire Lestat ~ Anne Rice

He (Grant) came to accept Lee's surrender with the mud still on his uniform, instead of acting like a god and conqueror the way Douglas MacArthur sometimes did when I was vice-president and president, and he ordered the horses to remain with the Confederate troops and told the southerners to keep their sidearms and go home and take care of themselves.

Where the Buck Stops- Harry S. Truman