It was only among the rich and educated that poetry could now expect to find an audience; and the poetry written for them appealed, for the most part, to the convictions, tastes, pleasures, and animosities which they shared as members of a class, not, like the best Augustan poetry, to the higher sympathies which they might share as the Depositaries of great national traditions.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
It is the exchange of ideas about us that we dread most; and the possession by a hundred acquaintances, severally insulated, of the knowledge of our skeleton-closet's whereabouts, is not so distressing to the nerves as a chat over it by a party of half-a-dozen-exclusive Depositaries though these may be.
"Desperate Remedies"
Thomas Hardy
The stone chamber in which the bodies were opened, and the halls in which they were prepared with salt, had adjoining them a variety of laboratories and Depositaries for drugs and preparations of every description.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers