1.   In the opening chapter, Ramona sits at the breakfast table thinking about the first day of school.

2.   The opening chapter of the book sets the scene.

3.   What the opening chapter did was to provide largely descriptive material of the society with which we are concerned.

4.   As he writes in a brief opening chapter before addressing his Civil War service, Fletcher was the son of a Louisiana slave overseer.

5.   But a series of encounters, including a sharp rebuke of the president on Tuesday night, showed that the opening chapter was spiked with surprises.

6.   But a series of encounters, including a sharp rebuke of the president, showed that the opening chapter was spiked with surprises.

7.   But how can you resist a book that in its opening chapter leaves you dangling, literally, on an edge of a cliff?

8.   In the opening chapters of the novel, this approach seems vaguely promising, at least as a narrative premise.

9.   In the opening chapters, Hazuka deftly balances back-fence realism with a supercharged expository style.

10.   It has overtones of an opening chapter in a Charles Dickens novel.