He was a pretty-faced little fellow, with an air of provincial foppishness,-a tiny adonis of Grimwinter.
"Four Meetings"
Henry James
Unwittingly Paul was performing one of the rites of the old adonis worshippers in sleeping with the moonlight upon his face, and thus sleeping he was visited by a strange dream....
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer
They melted into the sweet melancholy of the Lament for adonis, and he awoke, dazzled, half blinded by the brilliancy of the moonlight.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer