" 'Of glass it is,' replied the man, sighing more heavily than ever; 'but the glass of it was tempered in the flames of hell. An imp lives in it, and that is the shadow we behold there moving; or so I suppose. If any man buy this bottle the imp is at his command; all that he desires...' "
The Furnished Room (1906) O. Henry
"Homeless, they have a hundred homes. They flit from furnished room to furnished room, transients forever - transients in abode, transients in heart and mind."
The Veldt (1950) Ray Bradbury
"George Hadley stood on the African grassland alone. The lions looked up from their feeding, watching him. The only flaw to the illusion was the open door through which he could see his wife, far down the dark hall, like a framed picture, eating her dinner abstractedly. 'Go away,' he said to the lions. They did not go."
Edward Bear and the Very Long Walk (2001) Ken Scholes
"He was a bear, and his name was Edward, and he lay twitching in the corner of a room that smelled of death. He didn’t exactly know what Death smelled like, but he knew that’s what he smelled. Because Something Very Bad had happened here. He just couldn’t remember what. A small boy in short pants flickered over him, smiling. 'Hello Bear. It’s about time you woke up.' "
