[Pg 75] with unusual taste, or unusual mineral content, or unusual temperature, is likely to be regarded as having medicinal value.
— from The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

As we commenced operations upon the inevitable lobster salad, and the Fresher succeeded in inducing his scout, who had three other parties on the staircase, to attend to us for fully two consecutive minutes, St. Ronots remarked that the panto at the Suburban was not covered with dust to any appreciable extent, which for St. Ronots, and still more for the Suburban, is a great concession.
— from Red Paint at Oxford: Sketches by Tush

LVI Out of the dream of ages, sleeping fast, Out of the dim and unrecorded past, Out of the caverns of uncounted time, In life’s dark house Man saw the sun at last.
— from Renascence: A Book of Verse by Walter Crane