Bedwyr caught it and flung it back, wounding him in the knee, and Yspaddaden cursed him in language of extraordinary vigour; the words seem to crackle and spit like flame.
— from Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston

In regions where the temperature is liable to great alterations in the course of the year, man and other vertebrated animals of warm blood are liable to suffer in their health; for, though cold should produce the resistance derived from the necessary constitutional developement of heat, this increase of caloric, having its limits, often exposes the constitution to the effects of too great reduction of temperature, as is exemplified in the frozen regions of the North Pole, in Siberia, and in Russia.
— from The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827 by Various

The head pad resembles a cap hanging in lappets on each side.
— from Jean François Millet A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter, with Introduction and Interpretation by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll

It was well worn, and had been carefully handled; it lay open easily anywhere, and in many places various marks of pencilling shewed that not only the eyes but the mind of its owner had been all over it.
— from Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner