Arthur Machen

the well-known passage of the lad's playmate, gradually growing with his growth and increasing with his stature, till the air was filled with the rank fume of the goat

By the mistaken benevolence of deceased relatives both young men were placed out of reach of hunger

Amongst many delusions, he cherished one most fondly, that he was a strenuous worker

Sir Joshua Byrde, a Turkey merchant, brought it home from Aleppo

a man is sauntering along a quiet, sober, every-day London street, a street of gray houses and blank walls, and there, for a moment, a veil seems drawn aside, and the very fume of the pit steams up through the flagstones, the ground glows, red hot, beneath his feet, and he seems to hear the hiss of the infernal caldron

Dyson felt that the individual beside him was something more than compact of vulgarity

The man was dressed in quiet taste, and the most scrupulous observer could find nothing amiss with the fashion or make of his clothes, yet, from his hat to his boots, everything seemed inappropriate.

As ana­lo­gies go, that is a pretty good ana­logy of what I have done; you can un­der­stand now a little of what I felt as I stood here one even­ing; it was a sum­mer even­ing, and the val­ley looked much as it does now; I stood here, and saw be­fore me the un­ut­ter­able, the un­think­able gulf that yawns pro­found between two worlds, the world of mat­ter and the world of spirit; I saw the great empty deep stretch dim be­fore me, and in that in­stant a bridge of light leapt from the earth to the un­known shore, and the abyss was spanned.