"All day the wind had screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows,..." (Arthur Conan Doyle)

"It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that even here in the heart of the great, hand-made London we were forced to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life, and to recognize the presence of those great elemental forces which shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilization, like untamed beasts in a cage."

SOURCE: "Five Orange Pips" (Arthur Conan Doyle)

A splendid quote from the creator of one of the planet's most recognized figures - Sherlock Holmes.