It was a dark and stormy night.
Victorian novelist
Opening line of 'Paul Clifford' by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, often mistakenly attributed to Dickens or used as a parody of his style. Dickens did use similar descriptive language.
1830 (Bulwer-Lytton)
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