Our whole life here seems a sort of dream,-as if we were living in some wonderful bubble that will suddenly burst one day, and leave us floating alone in space, with nothing anywhere to rest on.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
I went easily along and then, one day, all the romance went out of it-clean-like a pricked bubble.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
The red stone Fort, and Palace, and Taj, and the marble courts seem to become again alive, and full of people and colour and movement, a gallant array, and the fountains bubble, and Akbar plays living chess with his lovely wives, in colour and jewels, on his marble courts.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch