"Well, I trust you have not found me wanting in hospitality, at all events," continued the old officer, "though you have full right to complain of our long voyage; but let me tell you, we have had, for this time of the year, most unusual weather; first, the heavy gales we experienced; then the thick heavy fogs, which hung like funereal palls over the face of the deep; next the smooth sea and sudden favourable breeze, which seems, however, inclined to play us a jade's trick, and leave us in the lurch; and now those threatening clouds away there to the south-east.
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston
"Plodding along the lauded beaten track now and then palls on one, and it isn't the least bit easier than the other.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
Left, right, and all about are other palls.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer