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Updated: May 20, 2025

The silence in the room was appalling; one could almost hear the shiver of apprehension running down the silk-and muslin-clad backs.

Grace Denio Litchfield - Only an Incident

While we sat there on the bench only two people crossed the square, that same square that witnessed the entry of Charles the Fifth amid the silk-and velvet-clad nobles and burghers, and the members of the great and powerful guilds, which he regarded and treated with such respect. In those days the town had a population of thirty thousand or more.

George Wharton Edwards - Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders