Purple-prose Quote by William Scott Home

“A full moon, although less splendid than that earlier on,lit everything around. Before I reached the point where I would have to leave the…

— Saramago, José

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead…

— Charles Dickens

“It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex…

— Jennifer Croft

“And yet amid that tense godless calm the high bare boughs of all the trees in the yard were moving. They were twitching morbidly…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“Often in the morning they rode out along the tracks on Easter and took their lunch and once rode as far as the little…

— Kent Haruf

“Outside, I shivered in a landscape of greys and silvers, the stone walls and cobbles looming pale in the wintry air. The only true…

— Martine Bailey

“And all the sky was teeming and tearing along, a vast disorder of flying shapes and darkness and ragged fumes of light and a…

— D.H. Lawrence

“The Moon was just a sickle of light, hanging in the sky among a wild spray of stars. All that cosmic luminance, traveling for…

— Kenneth Calhoun