... always the Eiffel Tower. It is not a pillar of cloud by day any more than by night (in the present weather it frequently hides its head in vapour, at any hour) but at night it is a pillar of all sorts of weather interpreted into fire. Its latest star ...

... roads and forests with Ivo of eighteen, laboured beside him in harvest-field or vineyard, and lain beside him under the sky at night. It was now wonderful indeed to know of their two rooms, their good dinners, her solid clothes and his gold- braided uniform ...

... Cadiz in search of Napoleon's battle fleet. Astern, the men- o'-war swing lofty topsails in the sky, faint white squares against the gloom. It is still dark night of that famous October morning of 1805 the time of England's greatest naval triumph is at hand ...