“THIMBLEFUL” GLASSES These have a very small straight-sided or ogee bowl, upon a plain round, or spiral stem and big foot.
— from Collecting Old Glass, English and Irish by Yoxall, J. H. (James Henry), Sir

But in the plays of Plautus we have a profuse riot of solo speeches and passages that transcends the conventional and becomes a gross weakness of composition, pointing plainly to a poverty of technique and hence further strengthening the conception of entertainment as the author's sole purpose.
— from The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Wilton W. (Wilton Wallace) Blancké

Sometimes she would hum a sort of low tuneless chant—it sounded like a pagan ritual of some sort, all repetitions, rising and falling in a monotonous, haunting drone.
— from The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon by Josephine Daskam Bacon