Quotes About Long-dead

She can sniff it as she can sniff the pungency of the earth where it hides little treasures for the table; or the remains of the long-dead.

It was dread. A dread of going back into that other, long-dead life—or what he had thought was long-dead.

Allen was perhaps a similar case, and may have persuaded the youth into accepting him as an avatar of the long-dead Curwen.

When I trained my hawk I was having a quiet conversation, of sorts, with the deeds and works of a long-dead man who was suspicious, morose, determined to despair. A man whose life disturbed me. But a man, too, who loved nature, who found it surprising, bewitching and endlessly novel.