The natural product is a drug, and not a food; it is gathered only during some weeks of summer; it is not liable to speedy corruption, nor could there be any reason for preserving a specimen of this common product in the ark; it could not have sufficed, however aided by their herds and flocks, to feed one in a hundred of the Hebrew multitudes, even during the season of its production; nor could it have ceased on the same day when they ate the first ripe corn of Canaan.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
He does not reproach Death for any corruption by it "on form or face."
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
By this De Tocqueville does not mean sensual corruption of manners, for he believes that sensuality will be more moderate in a democracy than in other forms of society.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae