From Beverly Cleary's Ribsy
“Henry Huggins’s dog Ribsy was a plain ordinary city dog, the kind of dog that strangers usually called Mutt or Pooch.”
“Keith, the boy in the rumpled shorts and shirt, did not know he was being watched as he entered Room 215 of the Mountain View Inn.”
From Beverly Cleary's The Mouse and the Motorcycle
First Sentence of a New World 