M. Germain de Saint Pierre records an instance in a mulberry leaf, from the base of which proceeded a large leafy expansion divided into two [Pg 355] tubular, horn-like projections, and in the centre a thread-like process representing the midrib and terminated by a small two-lipped limb.
— from Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden) Masters

We had hardly passed the point of land when Jimmy Toppan, who spent most of his time standing in the bow, peering ahead like Leif Ericsson discovering Vinland, sang out that he had sighted the canoe.
— from The Voyage of the Hoppergrass by Edmund Lester Pearson