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drops of melancholy sound from their projecting eaves upon the broken  
flagging, lay there in pools or trickled into the swollen drains, where  
the fallen torrent sullenly gurgled on its way to the river.  
"The Brazen Android."-W. D. O'Connor.  
The fiery mid-March sun a moment hung  
Above the bleak Judean wilderness;  
Then darkness swept upon us, and 't was night.  
"Easter-Eve at Kerak-Moab."--Clinton Scollard.  
The quick-coming winter twilight was already at hand. Snow was again  
falling, sifting delicately down, incidentally as it were.  
"Felicia." Fanny N. D. Murfree.  
Merciful heavens! The whole west, from right to left, blazes up with a  
fierce light, and next instant the earth reels and quivers with the awful  
shock of ten thousand batteries of artillery. It is the signal for the  
Fury to spring--for a thousand demons to scream and shriek--for  
innumerable serpents of fire to writhe and light up the blackness.  
Now the rain falls--now the wind is let loose with a terrible shriek--now  
the lightning is so constant that the eyes burn, and the thunder-claps  
merge into an awful roar, as did the 800 cannon at Gettysburg. Crash!  
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