But although Miss Woodley was thirty-five, and in person exceedingly plain, yet she possessed such an extreme cheerfulness of temper, and such an inexhaustible fund of good nature, that she escaped not only the ridicule, but even the appellation of an old maid.
— from A Simple Story by Mrs. Inchbald

[111] “Otra, del 10, á los Officiales del Sueldo, para que á Pedro Ordoñez se le asiente plaza entre particulares y se le den partes de jornadas sin yr á ellas” f. 174 455.
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos