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Updated: April 30, 2025

And immediately ten years more came off the lady's age, and she stood at twenty-two. The young man began to consider with less distaste his obvious duty of escorting her home. In the momentary silence, wood somewhere near them once more creaked loudly and scarily. "Oh!" came her voice out of the blackness.

Henry Sydnor Harrison - Captivating Mary Carstairs

And the White Linen Nurse had waded barefoot through too many posied country pastures to experience any ordinary city thrill over the sight of a single blade of grass pushing scarily through a crack in the pavement, or puny, concrete-strangled maple tree flushing wanly to the smoky sky.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott - The White Linen Nurse