I sat down by the wayside of life, like a man under enchantment, and a shrubbery sprang up around me, and the bushes grew to be saplings, and the saplings became trees, until no exit appeared possible through the entangling depths of my obscurity.
Allow your fancy pretty free license, and omit no heightening touches because they did not chance to happen before your eyes. If they did not happen, they at least ought, which is all that concerns you.
The fact is, I have a natural abhorrence of pen and ink, and nothing short of absolute necessity ever drives me to them.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The side of the ship made an opaque belt of shadow on the darkling glassy shimmer of the sea.
Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.
My polite insistence must have had something menacing in it, because he gave in suddenly.
- The Secret Sharer, Conrad
I took his face to pieces in my mind, like a watch, and examined it in detail. I could not say much against any of his features separately; I could say even less against them when they were put together.
- "Hunted Down", Dickens
But, as it sometimes chanceth, from the might
Of joy in minds that can no farther go,
As high as we have mounted in delight
In our dejection do we sink as low
The Crags repeat the Raven's croak,
In symphony austere
Whither is fled the visionary gleam?
Where is it now, the glory and the dream?
With admiration I behold
Thy gladness unsubdued and bold;
Thy looks, thy gestures, all present
The picture of a life well-spent
Oft do I sit by thee at ease,
And weave a web of similies
- Wordworth
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