If it fell to me to describe all the most remarkable sites in Le Velay, I should have to use these expressions ad nauseam , and leave off with the consciousness that I had conveyed to the mind of the reader but a poor idea of the wonders of a wondrous land.
— from A Book of the Cevennes by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Sandys writes, “His skill in Latin verse is shown in his elegiacs on Queen Ethelfrida and in his hexameters on the shrine of St. Cuthbert....
— from Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Albert William Parry

The Tombes, Monuments, and Sepulchral Inscriptions, lately visible in St. Paul’s Cathedral, and St. Faith’s under it, completely rendered in Latin and English, with several discourses on sundry persons entombed therein.
— from Curious Epitaphs, Collected from the Graveyards of Great Britain and Ireland. by William Andrews

But if strife and ferment seethed under the calm surface in Lost Valley, its surges died before they reached the rolling slopes where the forests came down to the eastern plains.
— from Tharon of Lost Valley by Vingie E. (Vingie Eve) Roe