It was a great service and an enduring one and though, through the abolition of the use of the exact term, it faded the color from ink, it yet induced the lexical refinement from which contemporaneous good form proceeds.
"Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern"
Edgar Saltus
One of the lexical tablets from the library of Nineveh has long ago informed us that in one of the languages known to the Babylonians uru was the equivalent of the Babylonian alu, "a city," and we now know that this language was that of Canaan.
"Patriarchal Palestine"
Archibald Henry Sayce
To the use of the highest linguistic authorities he has brought a fineness of grammatical and lexical discernment which enables him to criticise and sometimes to correct their judgments.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews"
Thomas Charles Edwards