Imagery Quote by Mary Stewart

“London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night. Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side streets glimmered…

— E. M. Forster

“...she could not think of what had happened to her that day, or of what might happen that night. Instead, she watched the lamplighters…

— Galen M. Beckett

“The air there was heavy with the somnolence of a party prolonged into the early hours; and a dull light came from the lamps,…

— Émile Zola

“Their cold blue light shone through the silver curtains of river mist as streetlamps might glimmer through a smoke-grimed window”

— Anonymous

“But there was a time when light waged a heroic battle with darkness. It was a time when night skies were not bleached by…

— Bruce Watson

When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses…

— James Joyce

“Bright lamplight bounced off golden varnished wood. The suddenly vivid colors of scarves, hats, hair and faces after the gray-green gloom they’d been immersed…

— Antonio Dias

“As the day light left the city that night, the streetlamps were not up to anything like their usual candle-power. It was difficult to…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Horse-chestnut flowers bobbed like white wax candles above the deserted pavements. An oblique light struck into the street - so that its long and…

— M. John Harrison

“In the morning and in the evening and at night in his dreams, this street was filled with constantly bustling traffic, which seen from…

— Franz Kafka

“On Westminster Bridge, Arthur was struck by the brightness of the streetlamps running across like a formation of stars. They shone white against the…

— Graham Moore

“The storm had caused the power to go out; the streets were buried in a liquid darkness speckled here and there with the light…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón