Sometimes it is described as an enchanted city that appears in certain moments.
When she and Rinaldo fall in love, she spirits him away in her news helicopter to an enchanted Moorish city.
In it he taught me to wait for the night and the day And to search for a hidden, enchanted city.
He judged it an "enchanted city", with buildings that rivalled "the finest architecture of the Italian Renaissance".
It was dark when we crossed the river homeward; the myriad lights from heaven-climbing windows made an enchanted city in the sky.
Does it have to disappear, our enchanted city of two, a mirage come once in a lifetime only to vanish into smog and the everyday world?
Canal excursions by tourist boat often begin in Suzhou, continuing to another enchanted city, Wuxi (see page 173).
Opar," he mused, "Opar, the enchanted city of a dead and forgotten past.
Neither would put her and her enchanted city off the extended list of potential enemies, though.
Before sunset, they came over the final climb, and looked down upon the River Rauvin and the countless spires of the enchanted city.
