Me receptet Sion illa, Sion David, urbs tranquilla, Cujus faber auctor lucis, Cujus portae lignum crucis, Cujus claves lingua Petri, Cujus cives semper laeti, Cujus muri lapis vivus, Cujus custos rex festivus!
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The apartment, called lignum, was the place into which St. Paul and St. Silas were cast at Philippi, before it was known that they were Romans.
"Callista"
John Henry Cardinal Newman
If I was there, give me a good subject like that to-night, give me a good horn of lignum vitae-" "lignum vitae-what's that?"
"The Attache or, Sam Slick in England, Complete"
Thomas Chandler Haliburton