Hic passim juvenes puellulæque Ludunt, et tepidis aquis lavantur, Cœnantque et dapibus leporibusque Miscent delitias venustiores: Miscent gaudia et osculationes, Atque una sociis toris foventur, Has te ad delitias vocant camœnæ;
— from New Italian sketches by John Addington Symonds

His passim juvenes puellulæque Ludunt, et tepidis aquis lavantur, Coenantque et dapibus leporibusque Miscent delitias venustiores: Miscent gaudia et osculationes, Atque una sociis toris foventur, Has te ad delitias vocant camoenæ; Invitat mare, myrteumque littus; 243 Invitant volueres canoræ, et ipse Gaurus pampineas parat corollas.
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III by John Addington Symonds

She was in a dressing-gown, too, and looked charming en déshabille , her glorious hair unbound.
— from The Gay Adventure: A Romance by Richard Bird

I 198 was not in the least amused by it all; and if Nature had not bestowed on us bright moonshine at the Lake of Thrasymene, and if the scenery had not been so wonderfully fine, and if in every town we had not seen a superb church, and if we had not passed through a large city each day as we journeyed on, and if—but you see I am not easily satisfied.
— from Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Features of the arid lands:— C. E. Dutton.
— from Earth Features and Their Meaning An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General Reader by William Herbert Hobbs