Overhead the ionic field was aglow, humming softly, beating back the obscurant mists.
"One Purple Hope!"
Henry Hasse
He had to debate within himself how best to communicate to her that he was Willoughby Patterne, before her gloves were too much soiled to flatter his niceness, for here and there, all around, she was yielding her hand to partners-obscurant males whose touch leaves a stain.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith