The opening passage is interesting for the light which it throws on Sirius's temperament.

This storybook quality is suggested in the book's opening passage, which seems to describe a magical other world.

Every night he would murmur aloud to himself that book's opening passage.

The last movement is the most complicated; its elegic mood develops from short opening passage.

Key words to note in the descriptive opening passages are "black" and "dazzle."

We can, at the very least, as I suggested in the opening passage, approach a site barefoot, making a direct link with the Earth.

The title of the work itself is derived from the opening passage, which follows:

With that startling and very punchy opening passage, the author has laid down a big challenge for herself.

The first American edition (Ace, 1969) got the art right, although the book's opening passages were cut.

Take, for example, the opening passage of his memoir: