These flat disks on their heads consist of crosswise plates of movable cartilage, between which the animals can create a vacuum, enabling them to stick to objects like suction cups.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

I found that his case answered very exactly to the sentence he quoted from De Sénancour; he lived less in his own age than others do, but he had a fine compensation in a strangely vivid understanding of other ages.
— from The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton