Then I glanced up at the Metropolitan tower, higher but far less romantic in appearance, and saw by the big illuminated clock that it was nearly half-past eleven.

"The last part of the story is the best, to my mind," said Mr. Harry, "and as romantic as even a girl could desire.

"Take a new hero, then; nothing can be more romantic than that," whispered Helen, glancing at the pale, dark-haired figure wrapped in the military cloak opposite.

I declare"she turned to Endymion"he has been thinking of them all the time, and affects no concern in our adventures!" "Which, nevertheless, have been romantic to the last degree," he added, playing up to her.

She was married; she was going with her husband into the wilderness on the most romantic of all honeymoons.

But the exaggeration was painfully suggestive, confirming the ugly view Enva had given yesterday of the life that seemed natural and reasonable to her race, and made ordinary human kindness appear something strange and romantic by contrast.

Else, it is far superior to the other, which has but one exquisite verse in it,the last but one, or the last two: this is all fine, except, perhaps, that that of "studious ease and generous cares" has a little tinge of the less romantic about it.

But alas! the city, though it looks exceedingly romantic from above, is one of the dirtiest I ever saw.

During the next fourteen years he followed his shepherd's calling, making it romantic with sundry more or less successful attempts at authorship.

You could not speak of any thing romantic without rebuke.

I felt quite romantic on the way back, and allowed Gaston to repeat poetry to me.

That a long-dead poet walking in the Spring was moved as I am by the unfolding leaf and the returning bird imparts an added significance to my own feelings; and that some wise and beautiful old book knew and said it all long ago, makes my life seem all the more mysteriously romantic for me to-day.

Still a romantic at heart, he becomes more classic in form.