The warm, soft dark of night
The complete works of Otto Büchstein
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one of the countless idioms that flowed from the verbose quill pen of that tedious Austrian plowright Otto Büchstein straight into the inflated bowels of the English literary canon.
From Die Schweizer Heulsuse, when Büchstein is supposed to have written as he jay dying of dengue fever in filthy sanitorium in old Mandalay: