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“Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.”

Giving Night Hours Church Window Silent Dawn Giants Pale Roof Dominion Spooky Pavement Vaults Peeping

Book:Works of Charles Dickens: Dombey and son

Source: Works of Charles Dickens: Dombey and son

“That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.”

Causes Church Window Foolish Sufficient Tails Mice Scandal Whisk

Author:Austin O'Malley

“It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a convent or monastery attached; for arches in ruins, remains of oriel windows, and fragments of blackened walls, were yet standing-, while other portions of the old building, which had crumbled away and fallen down, were mingled with the churchyard earth and overgrown with grass, as if they too claimed a burying-place and sought to mix their ashes with the dust of men.”

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces

“If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.”

Ifs Men Church Opinion Pieces Window Observation Altars

Book:Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature

Source: Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature