So, turning, he checked himself, and stood still a little behind her, and looked down over the great tinted city circling the blue bay-her Naples, 'colour and light and shadow, and the way the streets go, cut like deep gorges, and climbing up.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
But a severe gesture from the old man again checked her words.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
The verdict on such data must always be "not proven" if the evidence rests on a true scientific examination of material which at best and in the very nature of things is not checked by the precision which science demands.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook