Next we have Geoffrey of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, who wrote his “Historia Regum Britaniæ” in South Wales in the early part of the twelfth century.
— from Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston

Not the tree, nor the presents, nor the toilets, nor “the goodies” overcame me; but one superb, inexpressible specimen of the genus homo —an Apollo in silver locks, the frosty though kindly glow of at least seventy years.
— from By-gone Tourist Days: Letters of Travel by Laura G. Case Collins

And we set out these organic events not according to the passing generations of man, but over scores or hundreds of millions of years.
— from The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly

Until that time Trichinellæ had been regarded as fairly harmless guests of man, but opinions soon changed when Zenker in Dresden (January, 1860), in performing the autopsy of a girl, aged 10, who had entered the hospital with typhoid symptoms and there died, found Trichinellæ (not yet encysted) in the muscles; the intestinal lesions characteristic of typhoid were lacking, but numerous adult Trichinellæ were found in the intestine.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

Knock at the door; in comes Mr. Hazlitt, or Mr. Burney, or Morgan Demi Gorgon, or my brother, or somebody, to prevent my eating alone—a process absolutely necessary to my poor wretched digestion.
— from Mary Lamb by Anne (Anne Burrows) Gilchrist

Hugh told him that he was the guest of Mrs. Bond of Shapley Manor, whereupon Mr. Peters sniffed sharply, and rising, obtained a box of good cigars from a cupboard near the fireplace.
— from Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo by William Le Queux