With a refinement of feeling which all lovers will understand, he gave himself the pleasure of pausing before his happiness; he would not even unseal that blissful note until the moment when, with closed doors and no interruptions to distract him, he could enjoy at his ease the delicious sensation of which his heart had a foretaste.
"The Lesser Bourgeoisie"
Honore de Balzac
He shall unseal all his fountains, and pour out his tumbling cataracts of vengeance.
"Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors"
James Freeman Clarke
The lamp would go out before morning if there was little oil; or else it would burn till Natasha, the Gentile chorewoman, came in the morning to put it out, and remove the candlesticks from the table, and unseal the oven, and do the dozen little tasks which no Jew could perform on the Sabbath.
"The Promised Land"
Mary Antin