a wind howling began, which seemed to form all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night. - Bram Stoker

It all seems like a horrible tragedy, with fate pressing on relentlessly to some destined end. Everything that one does seems, no matter how right it may be, to bring on the very thing which is most to be deplored.

It seems to me that the further East you go the more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China? - Jonathan Harker

La naturaleza trabaja sobre unas bases de esperanza tales que creemos, aun contra nuestras propias creencias, que las cosas saldrán como deben salir, no como sabemos que saldrán.