Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost and labour, a thousand rills gush downward, terrace by terrace, channeling the stone rails of the balusters, leaping from step to step, dripping into mossy conches, flashing in spray from the horns of sea-gods and the jaws of mythical monsters, or forcing themselves in irrepressible overflow down the ivy-matted banks.

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.