Vnder this kind also are all the great fish conteined, as the seale, the dolphin, the porpoise, the thirlepole, whale, and whatsoeuer is round of bodie be it neuer so great and huge.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison
Under this kind also are all the great fish contained, as the seal, the dolphin, the porpoise, the thirlepole, whale, and whatsoever is round of body, be it never so great and huge.
— from Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison
All this surmise was confirmed when Captain Brooke returned on board; but I never saw complete disappointment so unmistakably betrayed as it was on his face, that of the Admiral and the other officers who received him at the gangway.
— from The Great War of 189-: A Forecast by Frank Scudamore
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