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Categories: 1809 works, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Quotations from literature, 1830 introductions, English phrases
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It was a dark and stormy night  A dark and stormy night  Dark and stormy night
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"It was a dark and stormy night" is an often-mocked and parodied phrase considered to represent "the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style of fiction writing", also known as purple prose. Wikipedia
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"It was a dark and stormy night" is an often-mocked and parodied phrase considered to represent "the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style of fiction writing", also known as purple prose. Wikipedia
The English literary phrase Wikipedia Disambiguation
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opening line
phrase
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Paul Clifford
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Lytton
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It was a dark and stormy night
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It was a dark and stormy night
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A dark and stormy night, Dark and stormy night, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night

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