The gaiety, the frankness, and unassuming manner of Percy rendered him a most acceptable visitant at Isis Lodge, so the cottage was called; he was ever ready with some joyous tale, either of Oxford or of the metropolis, to bring a smile even to the lips of Mrs. Amesfort.
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 1 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar

From Herodotus, however, we learn that the Scythian word for an axe was sagaris , and as ‘g’ and ‘v’ are interchangeable letters savar is the same word as sagar .
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

At these méetings also vittellers, and in like sort seruants, labourers, roges and runnagates, are often reformed for their excesses, although the burning of vagabounds through their eare be referred to the quarter sessions or higher courts of assise, where they are iudged either to death, if they be taken the third time, & haue not since their second apprehension applied themselues to labour, or else to be set perpetuallie to worke in an house erected in euerie shire for that purpose, of which punishment they stand in greatest feare.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison