Charles Dickens: "dia estava quebrando no Bloqueio de Moinho de Plashw...

"dia estava quebrando no Bloqueio de Moinho de Plashwater Weir. Estrelas ainda eram visíveis, mas havia luz opaca no leste que não era a luz da noite. A lua havia caído, e uma névoa se arrasta ao longo das margens do rio, vista através dos quais as árvores eram os fantasmas das árvores, e a água era o fantasma da água. Esta terra parecia espectrais, e assim as estrelas pálidas: enquanto o brilho leste frio, inexpressivo quanto ao calor ou cor, com o olho do firmamento extinto, poderia ter sido comparado ao olhar dos mortos."

--- Charles Dickens

Versão em inglês

Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light of night. The moon had gone down, and a mist crept along the banks of the river, seen through which the trees were the ghosts of trees, and the water was the ghost of water. This earth looked spectral, and so did the pale stars: while the cold eastern glare, expressionless as to heat or colour, with the eye of the firmament quenched, might have been likened to the stare of the dead.