He stopped in front of a building whose squat brick facade was lettered with the reassuring sobriquet of its proprietor - The Bronze Bell by Louis Joseph Vance

There facing the avenue was the sumptuous Renaissance facade with eight lofty windows on each of its upper floors there inside was the hall all bronze and marble conducting to the spacious ground floor reception rooms which a winter garden prolonged and there up above occupying all the central part of the first floor was Seguin's former cabinet the vast apartment with lofty windows of old stained glass - Fruitfulness Fecondite by Emile Zola

People were beginning to come from Hanbridge Knype Longshaw Turnhill and villages such as Moorthorne to gaze at that facade - The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett