The storm's so bad that if you step outside for 20 seconds, you get drenched.

Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

Trees such as the pin oak, the shagbark hickory, the linden, and the sugar maple are the arboreal equivalent of the high school student council.

What moves directly in the images created by the antiromantic authors is their gaze, an expression of abandonment and loneliness.