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| "Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Land of Mist |  |
| It was certainly a depressing place, with a huge, gambrel roof which came down over the upper windows and nearly obscured them. There was a half-moon, and by its light they could see that the garden was a tangle of scraggy, winter vegetation, which had, in some places, almost overgrown the path. It was all very still, very gloomy and very ominous. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Land of Mist | |
| What was it? They could not tell themselves. They only knew that the black shadows at the top of the staircase had thickened, had coalesced, had taken a definite, batlike shape. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Land of Mist | |
| "There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!" | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Land of Mist | |
| People who are in earnest are always interesting, whether you agree with them or not . . . | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Land of Mist | |
| "Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated? " | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Land of Mist | |
| It was admitted on all sides that Challenger's opening half-hour was a magnificent display of oratory and argument. His deep organ voice -- such a voice as only a man with a fifty-inch chest can produce -- rose and fell in a perfect cadence which enchanted his audience. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Land of Mist | |
| Like many men who override the opinions of others, Challenger was exceedingly sensitive when anyone took a liberty with his own | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Land of Mist | |
