Ulysses vocabulary

Struck the weird Rat, in whose insatiate maw

Lay reeking malt, that erst in Ivan's courts we saw

Robed in senescent garb that seems in sooth

Too long a prey to Chronos' iron tooth.

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And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, scandalous senescence, meet only in a celibate, in one of that class for whom it seems that the great day which knows no morrow must be longer than for other men, since for such a one it is void of promise, and from its dawn the moments steadily accumulate without any subsequent partition among his offspring.

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]