Easily, and without correction by reason, her imagination made pictures, superb backgrounds casting a rich though phantom light upon the facts in the foreground.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
And yet what gems of landscape he has touched into his backgrounds here and there!
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
And in some subtle way he threw into these descriptions such a glamour of romance, such backgrounds of old castles and chiming bells, of noble dames glittering with gems, and village maids scattering roses, of martial heroes, and rejoicing lovers, all moving in an atmosphere of song and sunshine, that the little party sat listening, entranced, with sympathetic eyes drinking in his wonderful descriptions.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr