Game 24, round 2 lines

[a_d_medievalist]

A wonderful selection ...

1. Oxford presents an odd juxtaposition of airy soaring skyline without and musty fug within
   
   
2. "Well, my dear, that does seem to be a dead end, doesn't it."
   
   
3. Blood.
   
   
4. Nursing a Sunday hangover, I had just managed to fall back asleep when the phone rang with appaling shrillness.
   
   
5. It is strange that we entrust the entirety of human history to such a fragile thing as paper.
   
   
6. My family history is unlike most, but until recently I did not comprehed the depth of this difference.
   
   
7. Libraries had always felt like home to me.
   
   
8. In 1972 I was sixteen -- young, my father said, to be traveling with him on his diplomatic missions.
   
   
9. Ever since I was a small child, I had heard stories about Great-Grandfather's trip to Armenia in the late 1890s, but it was on a Tuesday afternoon when I was twenty-three that I first began to suspect that there was something I hadn't been told.
   
   
10. Looking back over the events of that period still causes me to shudder, even now.
    
    Lines due Friday midnight, London time.
    
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