It was a dark and stormy night
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it-was-a-dark-and-stormy-night-170-2443189
title:
It was a dark and stormy night
text:
"It was a dark and stormy night" is an often-mocked and parodied phrase considered to represent "the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style of fiction writing", also known as purple prose.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Often-mocked story-opening phrase
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_was_a_dark_and_stormy_night
date created:
2005-05-15T01:09:33Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T20:06:04Z
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