The phrase "It was a dark and stormy night", made famous by comic strip character Snoopy in Peanuts, was originally penned by Victorian novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, in the beginning of his 1830 novel Paul Clifford.
""It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."
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The night was dark and stormy,
The bathroom light was dim.
I heard a crash and then a splash...
By gosh he's fallen in!
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