As he went out into the alleyway to go forward, the last faint streaks of light were vanishing from the sullen sky over the mountains of thessaly and a heavy blanket of clouds had come up from the eastward, so that the night was ideally dark for running through these perilous waters.
"Command"
William McFee
Suffering actual pain only occasionally, she would have found time hang most heavily but for this divine opiate, whereby the gentle and gracious figures of sentimental fiction were gathered about her and lived out their brief lives in that deserted theatre of the ancient gods, between the silent ravines of the Chalcidice and the distant summits of thessaly.
"Command"
William McFee
"The celebrated Jules thessaly, I believe," replied Paul; "but I have never met him."
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer