The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
— Emily Brontë Jane Eyre / Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent / Agnes Grey
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Take my books away, and I should be desperate!
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I lingered round them, under the benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. (Wuthering Heights)
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The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to feel, and learn, that neither experienced nor evinced the sentiments of sober disenchanted maturity.
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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see heaven's glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear
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