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After creating several new species, he set to work to create a black tulip, for which the Horticultural Society of Harlem had offered a prize of 100,000 florins. In the house adjoining that of van Baerle, lived another tulip-grower, named Boxtel, who had not the wealth of van Baerle, and could not attain the same success. He became envious of his more fortunate rival.

Alexandre Dumas - La Tulipe Noire

Then, too, the women who belonged to each one of them, were jealous of one another, either about their chances of advancement, or about their lovers; often, too, their interests were complicated by other pettier, but no less important, questions."

Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne) La Fayette - La Princesse De Clèves par Mme de La Fayette : Edited with Introduction and Notes

Note 30: She who nursed the sick bed of Ivanhoe, est une si heureuse, quoique hardie, métaphore, que nous croyons devoir la hasarder dans notre langue. Nous ne pensons pas que M. Defauconpret l'ait rendue par cet équivalent: «Celle qui donna des soins si touchans

Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe (4/4): Le retour du croisé