| The Atlantic is a Lethean stream, in our passage over which we have had an opportunity to forget the Old World and its institutions. |
| This blank tract of repulsive land, so strangely dedicated to death, had lost every hint of lethean likeness. |
| Here anti-art becomes true art in a constant war of position with the degeneration of art's critical potential into the lethean waters of the contemporary. |
| What lethean waters were these floods of telegraphed intelligence! |
| Had Juliet so seen her love tokens dishonoured the sooner would she have sought the lethean herbs of the good apothecary. |
| O'er me, lethean darkness, creep Unfelt as tides through dead men's bones! |
