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basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth.
CHARLES DICKENS • THE PICKWICK PAPERS (illustrated, complete, and unabridged)
I looked up just in time to witness a celestial transfiguration. The new terrestrial darkness allowed the heretofore invisible above to emerge, as the sky, now cleansed of all mortal light, became dotted with astral pinpoints. I went out and wandered the streets; for the first time in that hyperkinetic place, walking beneath the stars.
Sergio De La Pava • A Naked Singularity
Temperatures had fallen and the sodium streetlights come on by themselves as Skip Atwater drove the artist and his spouse home from Ye Olde Country Buffet with a styrofoam box of leavings for a dog he’d seen no sign of; and the great elms and locusts were beginning to yaw and two thirds of the sky to be stacked with enormous muttering masses of clo
... See moreDavid Foster Wallace • Oblivion: Stories
A dazzling sunset swiftly turned to night, as though a pair of giant hands had pulled a black cloth over a world that had turned to ash.
Cixin Liu • The Three-Body Problem
alpenglow.
John McPhee • Annals of the Former World
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban nights are like the night there.
I have looked down across the city from high windows. It is then that the great buildings lose reality and take on their magical powers. They are immaterial; that is to say, one sees but the lighted windows. Squares after squares of
... See more“You sent him to the sky to die, assassin,” Kaladin said, Stormlight puffing from his lips, “but the sky and the winds are mine. I claim them, as I now claim your life.”
Brandon Sanderson • Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, Book 2)
I pointed to the ridge of the Grey Mountain, now dark with a white daybreak behind it, seen through the slanting rain.