He went by the steps and albion Villas, and as he caught a glimpse therefrom of the pier-end in the distance, had an impression of a man running along it and shouting; but he drew no inferences, although it struck him there was panic, with the energy of sudden action, in this man's voice.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
As Amyntas stood on the deck of the ship and saw the grey cliffs of albion disappear into the sea, he felt the emotions and sentiments which inevitably come to the patriotic Englishman who leaves his native shore; his melancholy became almost unbearable as the ship, getting out into the open sea, began to roll, and he drank to the dregs the bitter cup of leaving England, home, beauty-and terra firma.
"Orientations"
William Somerset Maugham
To many Frenchmen "Perfidious albion" was, far more than Germany, the secular foe.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright