"Very well, Mary," she said coolly, "I will look over my account book and have the money ready for you when you have packed and put your room in order."
— from Truthful Jane by Florence Morse Kingsley
If you change your position, and place yourself right in front of the catafalque, beyond the blaze of light and the brilliant pageantry, you have the dusky cupola replete with blue vapour; all this is quite indescribable.
— from Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
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