O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

(Caroll, Lewis. "Jabberwocky," Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. 1872. Emphasis added.)

Frabjous: adjective. Fabulous with a lemon twist.

The term is used in Lewis Carrol's Through the Looking Glass and is such a beautiful word that it has been adopted by literate persons around the world.

(Wikipedia. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frabjous>.)

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I had realized many years before why "patients" are called that; it's because a sick person is generally incapacitated, and thus obliged to put up with any amount of harassment and annoyance from persons who are not sick.

(Gabaldon, Diana. A Breath of Snow and Ashes. New York, New York: Random House, Inc., 2005, 568.)

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An absolutely beautiful book dedication from Laurie R. King's The Game (New York: Bantam Books, March 2004):

For the librarians everywhere,
who spend their lives in battle against the forces of darkness

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What is history but a fable agreed upon? (Napoleon.)