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I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the sam...

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Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent.

It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of livi...

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Truman CapoteAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mou...

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This twinned twinkle was delightful but not completely satisfying; or rather it only sharpened my ap...

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Vladimir NabokovAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

The day, a compunctious Sunday after a week of blizzards, had been part jewel, part mud. In the mids...

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Vladimir NabokovAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /Nothing that is not ther...

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She'd first seen Covent Garden after a heavy snow, walking with her hand in Win's, and she remembers...

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In your hands winteris a book with cloud pagesthat snow pearls of love.

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

Small, red, and upright he waited,gripping his new bookbag tightin one hand and touching a lucky pen...

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Anne CarsonAutobiography of Red

And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep...

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On gray days, when it's snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take a...

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Bill WattersonThere's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

Some days you get up and you already know that things aren't going to go well. They're the type of d...

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Bill WattersonThere's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

The wind swept the snow aside, ever faster and thicker, as if it were trying to catch up with someth...

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I gave three quiet cheers for Minnesota. In Seattle a dusty inch of anything white and chilly means ...

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It was gentler here, softer, its seethe the quietest of whispers, as if, in deference to a drawing r...

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Conrad AikenGreat Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

What would it be like, a world without snow? I cannot imagine such a place. It would be like a world...

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Initially the snow had been beautiful, but not so much now. The softness and sparkle still charmed, ...

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Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meado...

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They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and...

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It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, tho...

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Dylan ThomasA Child's Christmas in Wales

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother do...

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Dylan ThomasA Child's Christmas in Wales

The blast that swept him came off New Hampshire snow-fields and ice-hung forests. It seemed to have ...

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Edith WhartonThe Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold.

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mo...

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So all night long the storm roared on:The morning broke without a sun;In tiny spherule traced with l...

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John Greenleaf WhittierComplete poetical works

It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is white as snow. And it is sa...

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A wet autumn morning, a garbage truck clattering down the street. The first snowfall of the season, ...

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There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm...

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Jules VerneJourney to the Center of the Earth

I love to close my eyes a moment and think of the land outside, white under the mingled snow and moo...

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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or s...

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Lords of fire and earth and water,Lords of moon and wind and sky,Come now to the Old Man's daughter,...

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Madeleine L'EngleA Swiftly Tilting Planet

She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were go...

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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many...

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It looks like something out of Whittier's "Snowbound,"' Julia said. Julia could always think of thin...

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The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.

A new darkness pulled away the room, inked out flesh and outlined bones. My mother was wide awake ag...

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A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight...

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By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and th...

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Neil GaimanOdd and the Frost Giants

I don't really like driving in the snow. There's something about the motion of the falling snowflake...

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I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk ...

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Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being her...

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Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest...

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A man could be at the coffee-house every evening laughing and playing cards with his friends, he cou...

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...in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the ...

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There are two kinds of Communists: the arrogant ones, who enter the fray hoping to make men out of t...

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...every life is like a snowflake: individual existences might look identical from afar, but to unde...

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He felt that the stars had been pulverized by the sound of the black jets and that in the morning th...

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Outside, the sky was clear, stars gleaming in its ebony vastness like celestial fireflies. It was bi...

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I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signin...

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The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was...

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