But his other indiscretion, in having yielded so far to passion and opportunity as to crop by Prelibation, and before they were hallowed, those flowers of paradise which belonged to his marriage day; this he adverts to with even more solemnity of sorrow, and with more pointed energy of moral reproof, in the very last drama which is supposed to have proceeded from his pen, and therefore with the force and sanctity of testamentary counsel.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey
There he enjoys summer and winter pure and unalloyed by any tedious interruptions: a Swedish spring, which is always a late one, is no repetition, in a lower key, of the harshness of winter, but anticipates, and is a Prelibation of, perfect summer,-laden with blossoms,-radiant with the lily and the rose: insomuch, that a Swedish summer night represents implicitly one half of Italy, and a winter night one half of the world beside.
"The Campaner Thal and Other Writings"
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
I leave all this to the successor I pointed out in the commencement of this work, and satisfy myself merely with the Prelibation, the right of the first comer to every sacrifice.
"The Physiology of Taste"
Brillat Savarin