"Lawny" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in hand, Publius with white head and upraised hands blessing them, Nero, a mangled corpse, Nattalis in his dying agonies persecuted by the vindictive Rufa, and Galba hailed as Caesar by the assembled Romans. So, upon a magnificent tableau, slowly falls the lawny curtain. ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... the river crooked like the letter "S." The lower loop was to the left, and embraced the high and steep projection which was crowned by the ruins; the upper loop enclosed a lawny promontory, fringed by thorn and willow. It was easy to reach it from the castle side, for the river ran in this part very quietly among innumerable boulders and over dam-like walls of rock. The place was all enclosed, the wind a stranger, the turf ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI • Robert Louis Stevenson |
