"Mother, mother, have pity on your sick child! And do you know that the Bey of Algiers has a wart under his nose?"
The Diary of a Madman, pg. 19

"The 'rhetoricians' walked in a more orderly way. Their clothes were generally untorn, but on the other hand their faces were often strangely decorated; one had a black eye, and the lips of another resembled a single blister, etc."
The Viy, pg. 20

"He trod heavily and stumbled at every step. His eyelids were of enormous length. With terror, Thomas saw that his face was of iron."
The Viy, pg. 49

"It did not seem remarkable to him that the Russian populace should gaze with rapture upon 'Eruslanoff Lazarevitch,' on 'The Glutton' and 'The carouser,' on 'Thoma and Erema.' The delineations of these subjects were easily intelligible to the masses."
The Mysterious Portrait, pg. 51

"Three catastrophes which occurred...