There were many other tents on the plain, a blurred city of whitish shadows against the night, and there were many other glowing coals to mark where the earth lay under the stars, and the witching murmur, the tantalizing charm of each was-supper.
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
Mellow voices of bell metal swelled and died on the midnight air while, lounging against the motor car-with Liane at his side registering more impatience than he thought the occasion called for-Lanyard listened, stared, wondered, the breath of the sea sweet in his nostrils, its flavour in his throat, his vision lost in the tangled web of masts and cordage and funnels that stencilled the moon-pale sky: the witching glamour of salt water binding all his senses with its time-old spell.
"Alias The Lone Wolf"
Louis Joseph Vance
The tears would rush into her eyes, as her thoughts reverted from this scene of profligate splendour, to the humble but virtuous home from whence she had been betrayed; or if the witching power of music ever soothed her into a tender reverie, it was to dwell with fondness on the image of Antonio.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving