"Diminuendo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Waterloo Bridge, the rippled lights upon the silent-flowing river, the lattice of girders and the shifting trains of Charing Cross Bridge—their funnels pouring a sort of hot-edged moonlight by way of smoke—and then the sweeping line of lamps, the accelerated run and diminuendo of the Embankment lamps as one came into sight of Westminster. The big hotels were very fine, huge swelling shapes of dun dark-grey and brown, huge shapes seamed and bursting and fenestrated with illumination, tattered at a thousand windows with light and the indistinct, glowing suggestions ...
— New Worlds For Old - A Plain Account of Modern Socialism • Herbert George Wells
... brought Obligato to the diminuendo and finale," answered the fool; "even she who hath befriended the Huguenottine of the ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker |
