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for if he was still drawing breath it would only be proper to put a bullet in him, but his still features illustrated the arrival of unmistakable death,
Patrick deWitt • The Sisters Brothers
Now was I stupified with tenfold wonder in contemplating myself. Was I not likewise transformed from rational and human into a creature of nameless and fearful attributes? Was I not transported to the brink of the same abyss? Ere a new day should come, my hands might be embrued in blood, and my remaining life be consigned to a dungeon and chains.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
He made no scruple to charge me with being in love;
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
Though of a noble family, he was poor, and prided himself upon the independence that poverty gives; for what will not a man pride himself upon, when he cannot get rid of it?
George MacDonald • Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women
From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw—I could not bring
My passions from a common spring—
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow—I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone—
And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone
Edgar Allan Poe
She had never heard him say a foolish thing, though she knew that he did unwise ones; and perhaps foolish sayings were more objectionable to her than any of Mr Farebrother’s unwise doings.
Rosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Man of the Crowd.
Merlin Coverley • Psychogeography
His favorite occupation consisted in embellishing his rhetoric with all the proprieties of gesticulation and utterance.