"Of ancient time," says Lord Coke, "in cases of difficulties, either criminal or civil, the reasons and causes of the judgment were set down upon the record , and so continued in the reigns of Ed. I. and Ed. II., and then there was no need of reports; but in the reign of Ed. III.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Quickly, however, the savages were seen to be launching canoes of large dimensions, each capable of containing three to five score of men.
— from Antony Waymouth; Or, The Gentlemen Adventurers by William Henry Giles Kingston

we find men pretending to sentiments of religion and humanity dealing, with the full swing of their arms, thirty or forty thousand blows with heavy clubs on the arms, on the legs, on the heads of young girls, and making other desperate efforts capable of crushing the skulls of the sufferers!
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various