Whatever wull they Lunnoners think of Davonsheer, if they zees you agooin on laike this here?
— from Clara Vaughan, Volume 3 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
You have seen beautiful swords of auroral flame dart into the zenith; you have seen marvelous flights of meteors, which were gone ere your admiration had given rise to a cry of pleasure.
— from The Golden Censer Or, the duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by John McGovern
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