The blend of daylight and of lamplight made her an invisible spectator, just as it gave the people who passed her a semi-transparent quality, and left the faces pale ivory ovals in which the eyes alone were dark.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
Nor was there any direct sunshine falling into it; but a beautiful warmth of color now shone on the young green of the elms and chestnuts and hawthorns, and on one or two tall-branching, trembling poplars just coming into leaf; while the tulip-beds-the stars, the crescents, the ovals, and squares-were each a mass of brilliant vermilion, of rose, of pale lemon, of crimson and orange, or clearest gold.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
To attain accuracy and distance in throwing these destructive little ovals is by no means as easy as it sounds.
"Italy at War and the Allies in the West"
E. Alexander Powell