you temptress,Tess; you dear damned witch of Babylon- I could not resist you as soon as I met you again. - Thomas Hardy

Cry about one thing in life, cry about all; one thread runs through the whole piece.

She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.

[Of a wedding:] And so, standing before the aforesaid officiator, the two swore that at every other time of their lives till death took them, they would assuredly believe, feel, and desire precisely as they had believed, felt, and desired during the few preceding weeks. What was as remarkable as the undertaking itself was the fact that nobody seemed at all surprised at what they swore.