100. The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, retiring -- Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
99. They say that when trouble comes, close ranks, and so the white people did. -- Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
98. High, high above the North Pole, on the first day of 1969, two professors of English Literature approached each other at a combined velocity of 1200 miles per hour. -- David Lodge, Changing Places (1975)
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