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  • Your ghost will walk, you lover of trees, (If love remains) In an English lane.

    - Robert Browning
      Men and Women,'De Gustibus'.

  • A lane was made; and Mrs Hominy†came slowly up it, in a procession of one.

    - CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
    ^4  Martin Chuzzlewit, ch.34.

  • I'll walk down the lane with a happy refrain And singin' just singin' in the rain.

    - Arthur pseudonym of  Arthur Grossman Freed
      'Singin' in the Rain' featured in Hollywood Revue of1929 and other films, including the famous musical of the same title (music by Nacio Herb Brown).

  • For thefuture I cease,Deathapproaches with little delay, Since the dragons of Laune and Lane and Lee are destroyed; I'll follow the heroes far from the light of day, The princes myancestors followed before Christ died.

    - Egan Gaelic name  Aodhaga  n OŁ   Rathaille O'Rahilly
    c.1729  Closing lines of his last known poem, translated from the Irish by Owen Dudley Edwards.

  • There'll always be an England While there's a country lane, Wherever there's a cottage small Beside a field of grain.

    - Ross and Charles, Hugh Parker
      Song.

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