To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation--sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles.
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: sherlock-holmes mystery intrigue
Over the green squares of the fields and the low curves of a wood there rose in the distance a grey, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance like some fantastic landscape in a dream. Baskerville sat for a long time, his gaze fixed upon it, and I read upon his eager face how much it meant to him, this first sight of that strange spot where the men of his blood had held sway so long and left their mark so deep.
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: sherlock-holmes fiction mystery
Gay sex, one. Straight sex, zero
Dani AlexanderTag: romance funny mystery m-m ofy
Gay Sex Three, Straight Sex Nil
Dani AlexanderTag: romance funny mystery m-m ofy
Norm was lean, his short, straight black hair parted on the side, his mustache trimmed like he’d never heard of Adolf Hitler.
Jane SundayTag: mystery detective women-sleuths
...heaven wouldn’t be like this earth, this tormented earth ruled by evil forces that tossed humanity to and fro like a slow clown in a two-bit rodeo.
Joe LaFlamTag: humor satire mystery parody detecive-noir
Here lies the body of Colonel Cornell’s. The rest of the fellow, I fancy, in hell is.
Mark HodderTag: science-fiction mystery steampunk
Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended.
Mark HodderTag: science-fiction mystery steampunk
We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.
Colin MeloyTag: philosophy mystery chaos
The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.
Orhan PamukTag: compassion beauty affection mystery color irony attention interest detail
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