Word: balisand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Todd. But of all the company which, assembled in the hall, waited for her to descend, it was for Richard Bale that she wore a yellow rose in her bodice-for him that she sang, as she came, the dying fall of a sweet air. He, a Bale of Balisand, had been, like other Virginia gentlemen, a soldier. Fire and ice had altered the temper of his youth. Back again where riddles were playing, an elegant and austere figure, somewhat of a stranger to gaiety, he had fallen in love with Lavinia and she with him. The night before...
Joseph Hergesheimer is undoubtedly one of the most spectacular of our presentday stylists-and his accomplishments as a writer place him indisputably in the front ranks of American novelists. Presently we shall have a new novel of his to read, Balisand, his first since the impassioned Cytherca so recently celebrated in the cinema...