Hyperbole

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!

When all at once I saw a crowd,

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good

Through caverns measureless to man

Who said—"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

…the negro Domingo, the dog Fidele, but above all of the sweet friendship of some dear little brother, who seeks red fruit for you on trees taller than steeples, or who runs barefoot over the sand, bringing you a bird's nest.

…and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

The trumpets sounded, and instantly the arena was cleared for the race. The people shouted in a frenzy of gladness, and the earth and the air seemed to tremble with the transport.

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

Rugs could not be too good for him.

in his bed into a gigantic insect.

flow of human blood in human veins.

turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time.

I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future and in some way involve the stars.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame

Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements.

Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements.

Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

The supermarket shelves have been rearranged. It happened one day, without warning. There is agitation and panic in the aisles, dismay in the faces of older shoppers.

Before my wife turned vegetarian, I'd always thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way.