They place their garments in a box under the seat, and drive about in a state of almost perfect nudity until the sun reappears and dries them with his rays, when they once more clothe themselves in their native apparel.
— from The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious Rites and Ceremonies of the Siamese by Ernest Young

The Deacon was fifty years of age, large, broad-chested, red-faced, with full fiery red beard and thin brown hair, [8] which gathered in sodden, tapering hanks about his short neck and large ears; and his pale-blue eyes looked out of little triangular orifices on either side of a pyramidal nose, upon the apex of which was balanced a narrow forehead of a “quirked ogee” pattern.
— from Other Fools and Their Doings, or, Life among the Freedmen by H. N. K. (Harriet Newell Kneeland) Goff

156 Educated in the school of Arabic philosophers, notably under the influence of Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Maimonides paid hero-worship to Aristotle, the autocrat of the middle ages in the realm of speculation.
— from Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Gustav Karpeles