Photo, Elwin R. Sanborn, N. Y. Zoological Society Photo, Ewing Galloway ABOVE, THE GILA MONSTER, FEARED THOUGH ITS BITE IS NOT ALWAYS DEADLY TO MAN BELOW, THE IGUANA, A REMARKABLE LIZARD OF THE NEW WORLD The most famous of the rays, probably, are the torpedos, a family with a rounded, instead of the customary triangular outline, and a rather short tail, species of which occur on all tropical and temperate coasts, and are noted for their power to give electric shocks to any living thing touching them.
— from Zoölogy: The Science of Animal Life Popular Science Library, Volume XII (of 16), P. F. Collier & Son Company, 1922 by Ernest Ingersoll

In each succeeding year, when any new offence was created by Act of Parliament, there was a special clause put in to enable a prisoner to give evidence, so that at length there were some thirty or more Acts giving a prisoner the right to give evidence.
— from The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott, Sir

227, 238), Luther’s views on the power the devil possesses over mankind and over the whole world were growing ever stronger, till at last they came to colour everything great or small with which he had to deal; they became, in fact, to him a kind of fixed idea.
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar