AT MONTEGNAC A fortnight later, in December, and in spite of the cold, Monsieur Grossetete came to the chateau de Montegnac, to “present his protege,” whom Veronique and Monsieur Bonnet were impatiently awaiting.
— from The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac

"I put," he tells us, "the two parts into a flat glass, which contained water four or five lines in depth, and in such a manner that each portion of the polyp could be easily observed through a strong magnifying glass.
— from The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants. by Louis Figuier