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I could tell you of the siesta of the new Prometheus, when, perched on the Mount Caucasus of a bleak chain-cable, he gave himself postprandially, in full livery of seisin, to the vulturous sun.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various

Even Sunday was not barren for Zuleika: modish hostesses gave her postprandially to their guests.

From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir