Air Quote by James Whitcomb Riley

“She went alone to the vast room where the second-hand clothes were kept. Later, she thought it the happiest hour of her life. There…

— Martine Bailey

The eyes were hollow and the carven head was broken, but about the high, stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold.…

— Anonymous

“He loved her hair. It was like sunshine. Not the sunshine he saw here in England, but the all-consuming sun found on the open…

— Kristi Ann Hunter

“His golden-amber hair seemed to absorb the sunlight. His coloring was unquestionably Anglo-Saxon, but the dramatic lines of his cheekbones, angled at a rather…

— Lisa Kleypas

“His head was large, globular and oily; it sweated in all weathers; and his large round hat, set upon it sideways, looked like a…

— James Joyce

Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.

— William Maxwell

He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not…

— Patrick O'Brian

“A writer, who was a celebrity in Paris, had entered her shop one day. He was not looking for a hat. He asked if…

— Anaïs Nin

And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches, and danced over the…

— Lord Dunsany

He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting,…

— A. S. Byatt

“To a casual passerby, his appearance would not have inspired much confidence. His overcoat was patched in spots and frayed at the cuffs, he…

— John Stephens

“There was precious little nobility in the features of the High King's fleshy face. Like his body, his face was broad and heavy, with…

— Ben Bova