Who could have guessed, as he looked at his watch and then at the sky, that he was thinking: "It wants five minutes of noon, and she is prob'ly out on what they term an esplanade.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
He sat again on the esplanade at Bombay, as the sun vanished in a flood of rosy gold, and released the world from his heat.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
Then after I had related to him the incident at the "esplanade," he said: "That is of greatest interest.
"The Secrets of Potsdam"
William Le Queux