Notwithstanding his clothes, there was an air of breeding about him, unconcealable, a thing apart, even, from his good looks.

the polyphony of a biblical passage

Global a Go-Go, a 2001 album by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

Beneath an old ebony table were two long carved oak chests. I lifted the lid of one, and at the top was a once-white surplice covered with dust, and beneath was a mass of tracts — Commonwealth Quartos, unbound — a prey to worms and decay.