A word much in use among the students of universities and colleges, in the common sense of to inform against , but usually spoken in reference to the Faculty.
— from A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall

Baral and Bixio undertook some investigations respecting the upper air, which were to deal with its laws of temperature and humidity, with the proportion of carbonic acid present in it, with solar heat at different altitudes, with radiation and the polarisation of light, and certain other interesting enquiries.
— from The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial Navigation by John M. (John Mackenzie) Bacon