“The sun did not shine.
It was too wet to play.
So we sat in the house
All that cold, cold, wet day.”
Dr. Seuss book The Cat in the Hat
Source: The Cat in the Hat (1957)
“The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.”
— Raymond Chandler, book Farewell, My Lovely
Source: Farewell, My Lovely
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