Nor is this all: the tenderness of age is twice blessed,-blessed in its trophies over the obduracy of encrusting and withering years, blessed because it is tinged with the sanctity of the grave; because it tells us that the heart will blossom even upon the precincts of the tomb, and flatters us with the Inviolacy and immortality of love.
"The Disowned, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Exquisite evidence of a like general class, it was true, didn't on the other side of the Channel prevent the awful liability to the reach of attack-its having borne fruit and been corrected or averted again was in fact what half the foreign picture meant; but the foreign genius was the other, other at almost every point; it had always in the past and on the spot, one remembered, expressed things, confessed things, with a difference, and part of that difference was of course the difference of history: the fact of exemption, as I have called it, the fact that a blest Inviolacy was almost exactly what had least flourished.
"Within the Rim and Other Essays"
Henry James
The old gentleman, whose Inviolacy was thus rudely assailed, sat staring at the intruder, his mouth compressed, and three fingers round his glass, which it' was doubtful whether he was not going to hurl at him.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith