lachryma

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O lachryma Christi, it is of the best grape!

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

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

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

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

Tasted the custode’s lachryma Christi, which, if it be as good of the sort as he pretends, is middling stuff, but not bad with water.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Reeve, Henry