“The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.”
“They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.”
“Wilson’s glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small gray clouds took on fantastic shape and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind.”
“The gleaming stars all about the shining moonHide their bright faces, when full-orbed and splendidIn the sky she floats, flooding the shadowed earth with clear silver light.”
“fantastic shadows of birds”
“I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.”