But in British Lit, the streetlights were always slowly coming on as the
snow starting to pick up speed, and everybody raced home to witness the
goose being pulled from the fire, brandy flowing and cranberry stuffing
in huge white bowls. Off in the distance, carolers. - XMASTIME
Surprised the opening for A Tale of Two Cities didn't make the list; the lashing rain was only mentioned every 3 seconds. This is a good one, though:
6. The snow in James Joyce’s “The Dead.”
It
had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and
dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. . . . Yes, the newspapers
were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every
part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly
upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the
dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the
lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay
thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of
the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he
heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling,
like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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