Air Quote by Charles Dickens

Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with…

— Anonymous

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

“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust…

— Anonymous

Winter hurled more wind and rain at the city than it ever had before. Clouds dashed about in all directions emptying their thunder, hail…

— Ismail Kadaré

“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

The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp…

— Sherwood Anderson

The house had gone to bring again To the midnight sky a sunset glow. Now the chimney was all of the house that stood,…

— Robert Frost

In some of those dense fir andspruce woods there is hardly room for the smoke to go up. The trees are a standing night,and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The first of many autumn rains smelled smoky, like a doused campsite fire, as if the ground itself had been aflame during those hot…

— Leslye Walton

“It was a bad night to be about with such a feeling in one's heart. The rain was cold, pitiless and increasing. A damp,…

— Charlotte Riddell

“The panes streamed with rain, and the short street he looked down into lay wet and empty, as if swept clear suddenly by a…

— Joseph Conrad

“It was one of those autumn mornings which are devoid of melancholy, when the weather seems to be cleaning its house. A broom of…

— Rebecca West