He was dressed with all the finish his wardrobe allowed, and his face beamed with gratification; it was rapture to him to enter the presence of these three girls, one of whom he had, more suo , held in romantic remembrance since his one meeting with her at Jasper’s old lodgings.
— from New Grub Street by George Gissing

In the “Roman d’Alexandre,” in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, a whole street of such houses is rudely represented, some with the gable to the street, some with the side, all with the door approached by an exterior stair, most of them with the windows apparently unglazed, and closed at will by a shutter.
— from Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition by Edward Lewes Cutts