Thaddeus preferred this pathetic whim to her former sapphic follies; it afforded him quiet, and relieved him from much embarrassment.
"Thaddeus of Warsaw"
Jane Porter
Stray breaths of sapphic song that blew Through Mitylene Shook the fierce quivering blood in you By night, Faustine.
"Poems & Ballads (First Series)"
Algernon Charles Swinburne
In such cases, as the Horatian sapphic and the Ovidian elegiac, where the structure of the verse is too slight to produce this impressive effect, there is still a remarkable divergence from the freedom and manifold harmony of the early Greek poets to a more uniform and monotonous cadence.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar