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Cuba and Tropical Africa Lagocheirus is Neotropical
Several of the genera are curiously distributed;— Spalacopsis is South American, with 4 species in Cuba and Tropical Africa; Lagocheirus is Neotropical, with a species in Australia; while Leptostilus is characteristic of the Antilles and North America, with a few species in South America, and one in New Zealand.
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace

consumed and they are living in nearly
The worms are not fed until almost all their food has been consumed and they are living in nearly pure castings.
— from Organic Gardener's Composting by Steve Solomon

cards and they are legion in number
The games are still more different from ours than the cards, and they are legion in number.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

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