He led a life of dissolution, drinking and gambling almost daily.

Now, from one little indulgence gained after another, in the many bleak and Decemberly nights of a seven years' widowhood, things had insensibly come to this pass...

The first Buffyfic I ever read was set in the Bronze: Changing Hands (I think that was the title).

A declaration of the places whence the goods ſubſcribed doe come. … Sumack, from Cyprus.