Like the magi of old, several hundred students gazed in devotional awe at the daily miracle, the early solar fire rite in the eastern sky.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

The sepulchre made sure with ponderous Stone, Seal that same stone, O Priest; 10 It may be thou shalt block the holy One From rising in the east: Set a watch about the sepulchre To watch on pain of death; They must hold fast the stone if One should stir And shake it from beneath.
— from Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems by Christina Georgina Rossetti

Therefore when writing for readers in the English speaking world where this kind of abbreviation is not recognized as such, we should always write the name in full, Janszoon, Jacobszoon, Bastiaenszoon, etc., when referring to people of that period.
— from The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765 by J. E. (Jan Ernst) Heeres

She is followed by five little balls of black fur--her red-beaked progeny; they are fairly revelling in the evening sunlight, diving, playing with each other, and thoroughly enjoying life.
— from A Cotswold Village; Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire by J. Arthur (Joseph Arthur) Gibbs

A still further restriction is the English system of crossing cheques, that is to say, of drawing two lines across the face of the cheque, by which mark it is shown that the cheque is not to be paid in cash across the counter by the bank drawn on, but must be paid into a bank by the payee, and so only becomes credited to him in his own banking account through the operations of the clearing house.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

The destruction of its breeding grounds will exterminate it soon enough, as it has already been extirpated from its former range in the Eastern States.
— from Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) by Arthur Cleveland Bent