Citations:philocalist
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English citations of philocalist
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- 1858, John Brown, Locke and Sydenham, T. Constable, page 426:
- This poor, vindictive, ſolitary, and powerful creature, was a philocaliſt : he had a ſingular love of flowers and of beautiful women.
- 2010, Dorothy Dunnett, The Disorderly Knights, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 545:
- ‘I,’ said Lymond coolly, ‘am a philocalist of independent means. I help myself. If you can tear yourself away from my family’s affairs, I fancy there is a little work to be done.... Interested, Blacklock?"