Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

" I felt a terrible wind blowing, the earth began to tremble, and the sky suddenly became dark.

The terrible heat was not as bad as the Khamsin dust storms which blow once every 50 days for between a few hours and several days ; the air is turned into a haze of floating sand particles flung about by a strong, hot southerly wind.

Shackleton's men were, in Worsley's words, " a terrible trio of scarecrows ", their haggard faces dark with exposure, wind, frostbite and accumulated blubber soot.

" I felt a terrible wind blowing, the earth began to tremble, and the sky suddenly became dark.

A. H. Weiler in the New York Times commented, " Joan Crawford should be credited with a truly professional performance ", and Otis L. Guernsey, Jr., in the New York Herald Tribune wrote, " The scenario ... is designed to allow Miss Crawford a wide range of quivering reactions to vicious events, as she passes through the stage of starry-eyed love, terrible disillusionment, fear, hatred, and finally hysteria.

The place of his Sun's rising is over the sea, and the people who dwell there, when he is about to rise, flee away and hide themselves in the sea, that they be not burnt by his rays ; and he passes through the midst of heaven to the place where he enters the window of heaven ; and wherever he passes there are terrible mountains, and those who dwell there have caves hollowed out in the rocks, and as soon as they see the Sun passing them, men and birds flee away from before him and hide in the caves ... And when the Sun enters the window of heaven, he straight away bows down and makes obeisance before God his Creator ; and he travels and descends the whole night through the heavens, until at length he finds himself where he Sun rises ...

Lincoln understood this better than most when he said in his `` Second Inaugural '' that God `` gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came ''.

and there were his shoes, thank God, but his shirt was one terrible mess.

Paneloux is at pains to emphasize that God did not will the calamity: " He looked on the evil-doing in the town with compassion ; only when there was no other remedy did He turn His face away, in order to force people to face the truth about their life " In Paneloux's view, even the terrible suffering caused by the plague works ultimately for good.

Rather than being ontologically real, in Christian Science evil and its manifestations are instead terrible lies about God and His creation.

Receive thou this pledge, and preserve it whole and unharmed until thy last breath, because thou shalt be held to an accounting therefore in the second and terrible Coming of our great Lord, God, and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

Greenberg notes that there have been several terrible destructions of the Jewish community, each with the effect of distancing the Jewish people further from God.

This interpretation is disputed by, for example, the Catholic Encyclopaedia, noting that the Israelites of the time were decidedly barbarous ; that Mosaic law ( which forbade human sacrifice ) was at this time widely disrespected ; and that there are several other examples of rash vows to God with similarly terrible consequences.

Eliade argues that " Yahweh is both kind and wrathful ; the God of the Christian mystics and theologians is terrible and gentle at once ".

His biographer writes that he " became sick in body, but his mental wretchedness was too great to allow of his retiring, and he would walk the floor till nearly morning, and sometimes the agony of his mind was so terrible that he would wring his hands and weep like a child ..." While his wife Vilate had trials " grievous to bear " as a result of her acceptance of plural marriage, she supported her husband in his religious duties, and taught her children that " she could not doubt the plural order of marriage was of God, for the Lord had revealed it to her in answer to prayer.

The Christian fall of Lucifer is thought of as especially terrible, as angels are wholly spirit, yet Lucifer defied God, the ultimate perfection.

As his reign was peaceful and blessed, Helen visited the Jerusalem Temple to thank God, and since there was a terrible famine at the time, she brought lots of food and aid to the people of Jerusalem.

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Thereupon, God decreed that a terrible flood would cover the whole earth and He ordered Noah to build an Ark which would save him and the believers from this dreadful calamity.

When the campaign opened the old Marshal Boufflers volunteered to serve under him, and after the terrible battle of Malplaquet, in which he was gravely wounded ( by a musketball to the knee ), he was able to tell the king: " If it please God to give your majesty's enemies another such victory, they are ruined.

In other words, the terrible events that follow one another on stage cause the audience to empathize in pulses that generate them, by empathizing with the tragic hero through his emotions ( drama ), the other condemning the wickedness or vice through the hubris (-Lett " pride " or " abuse ", i. e. the act against the laws of God, which leads the character to make the crime ).

As his reign was peaceful and blessed, Helen visited the Jerusalem Temple to thank God, and since there was a terrible famine at the time, she brought lots of food and aid to the people of Jerusalem.

When Ashura awoke as a God of Destruction, he somehow didn't kill Tenou, stating that he wants Tenou to witness all the terrible carnage he would do.

Even as the Jews bore the unleavened bread upon their heads out of Egypt through the desert () until they had crossed the Red Sea, after which they dedicated the bread to God, divided it amongst all their host, and having all eaten thereof, became ... terrible to their enemies, even so do we, saved by our Resurrected Lord from the captivity of that Pharaoh of the mind, the Devil, bear forth the blessed bread the Artos from the day of the Resurrection of Christ and, finally, having dedicated this bread to God, we eat of it and preserve it to the health of body and soul.

During the summer of 1918 at the Gleizes ' rented house in Pelham New York, writes Daniel Robbins, Albert Gleizes came to his wife and said, " A terrible thing has happened to me: I believe I am finding God.

The boys logically conclude that their money was stolen, and Damian, who thought the money was from God, feels terrible.

I remember one night standing on the balcony, full of dark thoughts and self-pity, thinking ' God, this is f ** king terrible, why me?

Fasani represented himself as sent by God to disclose mysterious visions, and to announce to the world terrible visitations.

The rocking is actually felt in the story, a terrible and ominous rhythm that prophesies the tragedy.

It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.

but this -- yes, terrible step I am about to take is lightened with an inundating joy by the new-found hope that here, in these poems, is treasure -- or at least some measure of beauty, which I did not know of ''.

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

If one asks about this play, what it is that comes upon this community and works within it with such terrible power, there is no better answer to give than `` spirit ''.

Yet such is the dramatic power of his writing that the audience is nevertheless left in the grip of the terrible power and potency of that which came over Salem.

In the Iliad, Apollo is the healer under the gods, but he is also the bringer of disease and death with his arrows, similar to the function of the terrible Vedic god of disease Rudra.

The terrible god is called " The Archer ", and the bow is also an attribute of Shiva.

He is pictured as a terrible god, less trusted by the Greeks than other gods.

After four years of war-torn London, Christie hoped she can return some day to Syria, which she described as " gentle fertile country and its simple people, who know how to laugh and how to enjoy life ; who are idle and gay, and who have dignity, good manners, and a great sense of humor, and to whom death is not terrible.

However, if this approach is naïvely adopted, then moral agents who, for example, recklessly fail to reflect on their situation, and act in a way that brings about terrible results, could be said to be acting in a morally justifiable way.

We have seen the cause of democracy, which is, in our view, the cause of civilisation and humanity, receive a terrible defeat ... The events of these last few days constitute one of the greatest diplomatic defeats that this country and France have ever sustained.

The resulting battle of Brunanburh — Dún Brunde — is reported in the Annals of Ulster as follows: a great battle, lamentable and terrible was cruelly fought ... in which fell uncounted thousands of the Northmen.

In the Book of Malachi, Elijah's return is prophesied " before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord ," making him a harbinger of the Messiah and the eschaton in various faiths that revere the Hebrew Bible.

In verse, after Loki has flyted with the goddess Frigg, Freyja interjects, telling Loki that he is insane for dredging up his terrible deeds, and that Frigg knows the fate of everyone, though she does not tell it.

The terrible food is the center of most of the jokes, along with the poor management.

Perhaps I am wrong to say that ; nevertheless, we will not see him again, as we have seen him for these many years, we will not run to him for advice or seek solace from him, and that is a terrible blow, not only for me, but for millions and millions in this country.