“Magnus placed an order with the room service, who had by now stopped questioning Mr. Bane's unusual needs for things like twenty-four plates of scrambled eggs and “”.”

Empire of Dreams (prose poetry, 1988)

Source: The Charioteer (1953), p. 285
Context: You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets so that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.

Opening words.
Rosemary's Baby

Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Annual Report of the Directory, p.56, 1853.

"Three, seven, queen!"
VI.
The Queen of Spades (1833)

Source: "Chechen leader, amid reshuffles, says ready to die for Putin" in Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-chechnya/chechen-leader-amid-reshuffles-says-ready-to-die-for-putin-idUSKBN1DR03I (26 November 2017)

Source: Clockwork Prince