Bend a line to the lee head-earing and let it go, haul the sail well up to windward, and make fast the lee earing to the buntlines.
— from The Seaman's Friend Containing a treatise on practical seamanship, with plates, a dictionary of sea terms, customs and usages of the merchant service by Richard Henry Dana

Well, to cut a long story short, he swore it was a counter, and I swore it was firewood, and so, at length, I give him ten shillings for it, and brought it home and cleaned it down, and scraped the dirt, inch thick, off, and washed it, and painted it, and polished it, and look at it now, Mrs. Gray, look at it now!"
— from Rachel Gray: A Tale Founded on Fact by Julia Kavanagh