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Rise, and speak wisely, man -- but hark; I see thy rug, as woven i'the Orient, A treasure from abroad.

Advisor: Was it cruel to let poor kids in India play with my iPod? Boing Boing 2009

Rise, and speak wisely, man -- but hark; I see thy rug, as woven i'the Orient, A treasure from abroad.

Boing Boing 2010

When the actors talk of horses in Henry V, 'Think ... that you see them/Printing their proud hoofs i'the receiving earth'.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

Will you say that to the mother who weeps over a grave scratched i'the parched earth?

The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992

We should die before our time, even of moral diseases, unaided by physical ones; but the uncertainty of human events, which is the "worm i'the bud" of happiness, is to the miserable a cheering and consolatory reflection.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

We should die before our time, even of moral diseases, unaided by physical ones; but the uncertainty of human events, which is the "worm i'the bud" of happiness, is to the miserable a cheering and consolatory reflection.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part II., 1793 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

Lotus ladies tend them i'the eyes, their pineal glands aglow.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

Unsuspicious of being, as she was, the talk of the neighborhood, the poor girl "let concealment, like a worm i'the bud, prey," not only "on her damask cheek," but on the very seat of life.

Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. II. 1839

It was cut so clean of the quarter (drawing his finger closely across his own neck), and was so short i'the snout, and as white as a sheet, -- it was, your Worship, remarkably handsome.

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821) John Badcock 1823

No one, generally, was more interested in Menie's amusements than Richard; but at present, Richard, like his celebrated namesake, was not i'the vein.

The Surgeon's Daughter Walter Scott 1801