May the deities and demons ever minister unto thy happiness and may not fear proceed unto thee, Oh my son, from the terrible Rāksashas and Pisāchas intent on committing cruel deeds, and other animals living on flesh.
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume One. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam by Valmiki

Far and near had sounded and resounded the name of Pudney the swift-footed—how he had distanced all his competitors—how he had done eleven miles under the hour—were facts patent to all sporting England; but against him page 88 p. 88 was this melancholy reality, that he was getting old—he was verging on thirty-two.
— from About London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie