And Justus Lipsius, a critick of noe ordinary reading, saith of this pestilence in his book de Constantia , lib. 2, ‘ non alia unquam major lues, &c. ’ that his reading did not afford him an example or president of a greater plauge, considering the many countreys it infected in the severall yeares that it lasted.
— from Historical Parallels, vol. 2 of 3) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

The stream known as Bayou La Fourche, or The Fork, is a large stream, some one hundred yards wide, leaving the Mississippi at the town of Donaldsonville, eighty miles above the city of New Orleans, running south-southeast, emptying into the Gulf, through Timbalier Bay, and may properly be termed one of the mouths of the Mississippi.
— from The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by W. H. (William Henry) Sparks

ACO A c o nc o rrẻnza, striuinglie, in competencie.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio