It had looked upon the city with a large, mellow charity, softly touching its many colours, deepening the steep shadows of the streets that ran through it like gorges.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
In this mellow evening light the little houses glow, through the river mists, across the cobbles.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
The swinging lamp shed a flood of mellow light upon her, and her arms, bare to the elbow, gleamed like new ivory below the shadowy pallor of her face.
"Command"
William McFee