In one species ( S. flexuosa ) the sculpture consists of round knobs, surrounded by single rings, like the heads of the bolts of the ship carpenter; in another ( S. reniformis )
— from The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller

Then turned in And tuck Daddy Craig's old cuore— Jis a buckeye —and that's shore .— Hain't no case o' rhumatiz Kin subsist whare buckeyes is!"
— from Neghborly Poems and Dialect Sketches by James Whitcomb Riley

They were the most obvious method of instruction; for, like nature herself, they addressed the understanding through the eye; and the most ancient expressions denoting communication of religious knowledge, signify ocular exhibition.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

There is more than usual attractiveness in the astronomical German titles of this tiny "red chafer," or rother kaefer , SONNEN KAEFER and VNSER FRAWEN KVHLEIN, the Sun-chafer, and our Lady's little cow.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 13, January 26, 1850 by Various

51 will be noted a push-up cam in a dotted position PC1, and it should be explained that this is for the case of reciprocal knitting such as is required in making the heel or the toe of an article of hose.
— from Hosiery Manufacture by Davis, William, M.A.

In Australian fable the moon was a man, the sun a woman of indifferent character, who appears at dawn in a coat of red kangaroo skins, the present of an admirer.
— from Custom and Myth New Edition by Andrew Lang