The grey-headed, weather-beaten, disappointed "Peninsular" is coupled with the Essenced and dandified Adonis of the corps; the man of literary tastes and cultivated pursuits, with the empty headed, ill informed youth, fresh from Harrow or Westminster.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
Hide it so that no eye shall see nor no lip go near it: but when the wedding night has come and that moment in which the wedded are left alone, pour this Essenced wine into a cup and offer it to King Mark and to Iseult his queen.
"The Romance Of Tristan And Iseult"
M. Joseph Bédier
The old beau, painted, padded, and Essenced, came with the younger and not less elaborately dressed "fashionable," great in watch-chains and splendid in waistcoat buttons; long-haired artists and moustached hussars mingled with close-shaven actors and pale-faced authors; men of the world, of politics, of finance, of letters, of the turf,-all were there.
"The Fortunes Of Glencore"
Charles James Lever