dew-drops

Beyond Mr Jefferson's high black hat, through those tangled dew-drops of flame, Mr Goosevort saw golden hair glide softly through the oasis of bodies gathered vaguely round the stage, Mr Umberto and Mrs. Jefferson laughed again together, and Mr Howle's mournful ululation could be heard adrift a lake of rabble... golden hair turning away and fluttering into the shadow of a winding stairway.

Mr Goosevort Ivan R. 2011

He has already solved the mysteries of girl's love, and wife's love, and child's love, and found them delusions and shams, vain and fleeting as dew-drops, quick-vanishing before the ferocious facts of life.

THE GHETTO 2010

Apparently the sophistication didn't extend to the decor - much in evidence was your usual assortment of cloth flowers with those icky glue-drops masquerading as dew-drops thingies, broken chairs (in this case, expensive ergonomic ones - talk about work-related violence!), and the ubuiquituous 'Kaunter ditutup sebentar' signs, one of which I pilferred as a souvenir, muahaha * cue anti-establishmentarian laugh*.

Of coffee-breaks and sloths. naddywoman 2006

So saying, he approached this amiable mourner, this fragrant flower of beauty, glittering with the dew-drops of the morning; this sweetest, and gentlest, loveliest ornament of human nature.

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

Nor neede any of you to wonder thereat, or how it can be otherwise, because hourely I feele a thousand dying torments, without enjoying any hope of ease or pleasure: but referring my fortunes to their owne poore condition, it is my will, that Madam Pampinea proceed next in the argument of successelesse love, according as Madam Fiammetta hath already begun, to let fall more dew-drops on the fire of mine afflictions.

The Decameron 2004

And this nectar, clear as dew-drops, sweet with an aftertaste of some scented spice — a fragile pungency — was ever liqueur so purely compounded?

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

You should not mope all day in your rooms, but should come out into the green garden, and hear the birds sing with joy among the trees, and see the butterflies fluttering above the flowers, and hear the bees and insects hum, and watch the sunbeams chase the dew-drops through the rose-leaves and in the lily-cups.

The Yellow Fairy Book 2003

She dropped her silver lute at the feet of Jacinta, crossed her white arms upon her bosom, and melted from sight, so that it seemed merely as if a shower of dew-drops had fallen into the fountain.

The Alhambra 2002

She dropped her silver lute at the feet of Jacinta, crossed her white arms upon her bosom, and melted from sight, so that it seemed merely as if a shower of dew-drops had fallen into the fountain.

The Alhambra 2002

"Well first, on the thorns, you must count the dew-drops"

The Cockerham Devil 1997