For this amazing battle, which is bringing to us tides of prisoners and many batteries of guns, is being fought on spring days heavy with snow, as grim as sternest winter except when in odd half-hours the sun breaks through the storm-clouds and gives a magic beauty to all this whiteness of the battlefields and to trees furred with bars of ermine and to all the lacework of twigs ready for green birth.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
From the terrace, railed flights of steps led down into the park, where the sunbeams, playing on the young foliage, made a lacework of green.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
At places where a little while ago one saw nothing but a leafy lacework, the ripples of the canal now gleamed through.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann