"Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend."
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I Am Legend
by
Richard Matheson
The legend went, unconfirmed and unaccredited, but still propagated.
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Villette
by
Charlotte Bronte
Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.
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Nicholas Nickleby
by
Charles Dickens
We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls.
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A Christmas Tree
by
Charles Dickens
"They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night."
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle