This gentleman was naturally of an atrabilarious temperament, and much troubled with those phantoms of indigestion which are commonly called blue devils.
Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey
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Pax Hominibus Bonae Voluntatis by Aleister Crowley in International, Dec 1917.
“The other day I came into a fortune, and went to buy a necktie. The young man (or should I say gentleman) who accommodated me in this matter was English, and remembered me in those days of glory when I wandered in Bond street, and bought as many as three neckties on the same day.” [via]