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And everywhere, though it was still so early, there was a beating, a stirring of galloping ponies, tapping of cricket bats; ....
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, Harcourt, Brace and World Inc., New York, 1925, p. 6.
PLACE: Park in London, England.
TIME: early 1920's
Suddenly Mrs. Coates looked up into the sky. The sound of an aeroplane bored ominously into the ears of the crowd.
Then suddenly, as a train comes out of a tunnel, the aeroplane rushed out of the clouds again, the sound boring into the ears of all people in the Mall, in the Green Park, in Piccadilly....
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, Harcourt, Brace and World Inc., New York, 1925, p. 29, 30.
PLACE: London, England
TIME: early 1920's
As they looked the whole world became perfectly silent, and a flight of gulls crossed the sky, first one gull leading, then another, and in this extraordinary silence and peace, in this pallor, in this purity, bells struck eleven times, the sound fading up there among the gulls.
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, Harcourt, Brace and World Inc., New York, 1925, p. 30.
PLACE: London, England
TIME: early 1920's
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