Illam quicquid agit, quoquo vestigia vertit, Composuit furtim subsequiturque decor; Seu solvit crines, fusis decet esse capillis, Seu compsit, comptis est reverenda comis.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Sept. et Mexico, sed coloribus clarioribus et rostro robustiore differt. ”)
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

Verum quia iam nostris temporibus verius quàm olim dici potest, Virtus, Ecclesia, Clerus, dæmon, symonia, Cessat, calcatur, errat, regnat, dominatur, ecce iusto Dei iudicio, credita est terra tam inclyta, et sacrosancta impiorum manibus Saracenorum, quod non est absque dolore pijs mentibus audiendum, et recolendum.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

mud, 6 to 100 fath., Zetland, Skye, Cape Clear, etc., R. Broader and more pointed than S. prismatica .
— from Illustrated Index of British Shells Containing figures of all the recent species by G. B. (George Brettingham) Sowerby

From the top of it, which was not higher than Santa Claus could easily reach, because the ceiling was low, a marvellous doll, with real hair and with eyes that could open and shut, looked down with arms wide open to take Kate to its soft wax heart.
— from Children of the Tenements by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

By this time the fine Tyne-built, gray Chinese cruiser Hai Chi , which sailed from New York in October, arrived at Shanghai, and amid wild rejoicing, such as only the southern Chinese can express, ran down the triangular yellow dragon and hoisted the square tri-color sun flag of the republican revolution.
— from China Revolutionized by John Stuart Thomson

Staff Captains Captain E. R. Broadbent, M.C. 5/2/16 5/11/17 8th Hussars.
— from The 56th Division (1st London Territorial Division) by C. H. (Charles Humble) Dudley Ward