lachryma

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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

There is a cynical morsel among these precepts which is worth 146 observing, "Cito enim arescit lachryma præsertim in alienis malis;"139 and another grandly simple, "Nihil enim est aliud eloquentia nisi copiose loquens sapientia."

From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony

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