They sit so much at windows, that pretty soon their eyes become windows themselves-out of which the soul looks darkling, but preening; out of which it sometimes launches itself into the deep, wooed thereto or not by Aubade or serena.
"Love and Lucy"
Maurice Henry Hewlett
But I missed my little Aubade from the lawn, and not till breakfast-time did I behold my small friends, who then came into the breakfast-room, one on either side of their mother-two miniature sailors, exquisitely neat but visibly dejected.
"Cecilia de Noël"
Lanoe Falconer
The Alba and the Pastorela agree in subject with the Aubade and the Pastourelle, but have no necessary or obvious connection of form.
"A Short History of French Literature"
George Saintsbury