Keep your hair well brushed and washed, and nature will oil it for you much better than any hair oil or scalp Reviver ever invented.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
But just as the ballad is the appointed Reviver of poetry, so is romance the appointed Reviver of prose-fiction: and in one form or another it will surely do its work, sooner or later.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
Master Pedro refused to take the money, saying, "I will not receive payment in advance or until the service has been first rendered;" and then with his right hand he gave a couple of slaps on his left shoulder, and with one spring the ape perched himself upon it, and putting his mouth to his master's ear began chattering his teeth rapidly; and having kept this up as long as one would be saying a credo, with another spring he brought himself to the ground, and the same instant Master Pedro ran in great haste and fell upon his knees before Don Quixote, and embracing his legs exclaimed, "These legs do I embrace as I would embrace the two pillars of Hercules, O illustrious Reviver of knight-errantry, so long consigned to oblivion!
"The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete"
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra