“Our concrete bed, which during the day had absorbed and magnified the sun's rays, now seemed to distill the chill from the wind and wrap it around our defenseless bodies.”

“Then I wait till evening and I am filled with sorrows until the dark of night.”

“He had a pale pallor on his cheeks and his flesh did not seem to absorb any heat from the flames licking at the brick of the fireplace.”

“I was fine for quite some time until about a year ago when I started having an overall sense of discomfort, malaise, and just this sense of sickness in my stomach.”

“The King himself would pale with fear when he saw the paintings move.”

“They were all now praying that the fire would dissipate with a change in the weather or just burn itself out.”

“She had a very attractive face with blonde hair and delicate light blue eyes that seemed to hide a sadness behind their sparkling appearance.”