They would lunch in the tapestry dining-room, none too young or too old to enjoy the far-famed skill of Richard Maule's Corsican chef; and then, according to their fancy, or according to Athena's whim, they would wander about the house, looking at the pictures and fingering the curios which enjoyed an almost legendary reputation; or better still stream out into the formal gardens, now brilliant with strangely tinted autumn flowers, and fantastically peopled with the marble fauns and stone dryads brought from Italy and Greece by old Theophilus Joy.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
More and more people seemed to pass-their faces began to blend fantastically with the images surging in her brain....
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
They sat on ammunition boxes and played cards to the light of candles stuck in bottles, which made their shadows flicker fantastically on the walls.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs