And yet this house in the square, that seemed precisely similar to its fifty ugly neighbours, was as a matter of fact entirely differenthorribly different.
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Fingers of snow brushed the surface of his heart. The power and quiet majesty of the winter's night appalled him.Algernon Blackwood
He understood now why the world was strange, why horses galloped furiously, and why trains whistled as they raced through stations. All the comedy and terror of nightmare gripped his heart with pincers made of ice.
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It was October, and the air was cool and sharp, woodsmoke and damp moss exquisitely mingled in it with the subtle odours of the pines.
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And something born of the snowy desolation, born of the midnight and the silent grandeur, born of the great listening hollows of the night, something that lay 'twixt terror and wonder, dropped from the vast wintry spaces down into his heartand called him
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But sleep, in the long run, proves greater than all emotions.
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The winds were about and walking.
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