Harangues in silvery and selectest phrase,
’Neath waxlight in a glorified saloon
Where mirrors multiply the girandole.
R. Browning (The Ring and the Book, I).
This and the next five quotations are word-pictures ([see p. 85]).
“Oh, what are you waiting for here, young man?
What are you looking for over the bridge?”
A little straw hat with streaming blue ribbons;
—And here it comes dancing over the bridge!