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- To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen…
- One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . .…
- But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window,…
- Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and…
- She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw,…
- Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood...…
- The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of…
- Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and…
- The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever…
- Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to…
- Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing…
- There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.
- The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the…
- The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind…
- Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light…
- Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted…
- The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops…
- The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it…
- It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
- She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A…
- A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you…
- Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face…
- Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at…
- It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or…
- He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head,…
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