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“And as we stood there, a curious thing happened: a kind of window opened in the rain, just as if a cloud had been…

— Francis Brett Young

“...Until they stood at last by a crumbling wall, looking up and up and still farther up at the great tombyard top of the…

— Ray Bradbury

The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the…

— Charles Dickens

Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once…

— Charles Dickens

“The day’s colors slowly dissolved into gray, and the distant mountain peaks became opaque silhouettes of crouching giants. Earlier in the day, they had…

— Khaled Hosseini And The Mountains Echoed

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

“The shallow forests toward the west glowed with an almost preternatural haze, and the highway blacktop shimmered beneath a slick cocktail of rainwater and…

— Ronald Malfi

“The coal shed smelled of damp and blackness and of old, crushed forests.”

— Neil Gaiman

“All night sheetlightning quaked sourceless to the west beyond the midnight thunderheads, making a bluish day of the distant desert, the mountains on the…

— Cormac McCarthy

“What was the human world like in the eyes of the mountains? Perhaps just something they saw on a leisurely afternoon. First, a few…

— Liu Cixin

By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray as far…

— Cormac McCarthy

“One day, soon after her disappearance, an attack of abominable nausea forced me to pull up on the ghost of an old mountain road…

— Vladimir Nabokov