It was ten o'clock when they finally drew up at the side entrance of the hotel in a street disappointingly narrow, but which seemed to burst, just a few feet beyond, into a wildly tossed stream of light, pedestrians, and, above all, a momentum of traffic that was like the fast toss of a mountain stream.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
Of Victoria station I am many times certain, for it was from it that we at last left London, and that at the time of an earlier sojourn we arrived in a fog of a type which stamped our sense of the world's metropolis with a completeness which it had hitherto disappointingly wanted.
"London Films"
W.D. Howells
The young Frenchwoman's report was disappointingly lacking in any definite result-save one fact.
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander