It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.
The Bodley Head Henry James: The wings of the dove (ed. 1969)
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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
