One evening, the boys had just teased their Cousin Belle into reading them their nightly portion of "The Talisman," as they sat before a bright lightwood fire, when two horsemen galloped up to the gate, their horses splashed with mud from fetlocks to ears.
"Two Little Confederates"
Thomas Nelson Page
And in the long glimmering twilights when the light faded slowly from the plains and the wall of the hills changed from purple to blue and misty grey, they were caught up into the mysterious darkness of the night-those perfumes of the lightwood and wattle trees in blossom-and rested like a benediction in the air.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Eugene, speaking to Mortimer lightwood, said: "My respected father has found, down in the parental neighbourhood, a wife for his not-generally-respected son."
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes