ilex-shadowed

Updated: May 21, 2025

On this particular forenoon, however, neither Miss Hugonin nor Felix Kennaston had eyes for its comeliness; silently they braved the griffins, and in silence they skirted the fish-pond silver-crinkling in the May morning and passed through cloistral ilex-shadowed walks, and amphitheatres of green velvet, and terraces ample and mellow in the sunlight, silently.

James Branch Cabell - The Eagle's Shadow