lachryma

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Most of the house-tops are thus furnished, as upon them the Greeks pass their evenings in smoking, drinking light wines, such as "lachryma christi," eating fruit, and enjoying the evening breeze.

From The Vampyre; a Tale by Polidori, John William

I have sent a dozen casks of lachryma christi up the canals since the masquers came abroad, and beyond that I have not occasion.

From The Bravo by Cooper, James Fenimore

Ver ubi longum, tepidasque praebet Jupiter brumas: . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . ibi, tu calentem Debita sparges lachryma favillam Vatis amici.

From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius

O lachryma Christi, it is of the best grape!

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

He makes a delicious wine from the Chious grape, called Altintash, resembling the white lachryma of Vesuvius, but neither so strong nor so highly flavoured.

From Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 by Auldjo, John