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“I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.”

Moments Eye Health Cold Red Ears Green Noses Throat Temper Deaf Joints Damp

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel — of flying clouds tossed up into most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to plunge headlong, as if, in a dread disturbance of the laws of nature, she had lost her way and were frightened.”

Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield0: In Three Volumes

“The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour.”

Ifs Spirit Dark Air Sky Streets Rain Weather Smoke Wet Hung Gloomy Damp Sloppy Chimneys

Book:The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.”

Ifs Doe Eye Dies Gone Doors Smell Abandoned Damp Cellars

Author:Edvard Munch

“Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.”

Soul Night Logic Deeper My Soul Convince Pessimism Sermons Damp

Book:The Americanness of Walt Whitman

Source: The Americanness of Walt Whitman

“The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body.”

Body Sex Example Smell Mysterious Vivid Dominion Emissions Damp Aperture

Book:Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation

Source: Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation