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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.
The Vampyre 2004
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Altintash, resembling the white lachryma of Vesuvius, but neither so strong nor so highly flavoured.
Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 John Auldjo
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Job's tears (_Croix lachryma_) is another cereal grass, native of the East Indies.
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So now, Signor Giovanni, drink off your glass of lachryma.
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Mariani's is a quiet restaurant, famous for its lachryma christi spumante, and situated in the network of sombre streets between Drury
A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Grief and sometimes joy, operates in some unknown manner on the lachrymal glands, so as to produce a copious flow of the lachryma, or tears.
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So now, Signor Giovanni, drink off your glass of lachryma. ''
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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.
The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3) Charles Greville 1829
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I only care about Fairy Tail and Natsu and the others 'struggle to stop the dragon chain cannon from slamming the lachryma into the island successfully.
Anime Nano! 2010
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(they are catalogued for us, and placed in rows in the shop windows); we purchase _lachryma Christi_ by the dozen; and, for a few sous, may become possessed of the whole paraphernalia of the Holy Manger.
Normandy Picturesque Henry Blackburn 1863
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