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Euge, sacrum pectus, tibi, per tot secula, soli Seruata est regio nullis regnata Monarchis.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12 America, Part I by Richard Hakluyt
44.0 20.7 18.0 12.6 10.2 7.3 5.3 Minimum 42.0 20.0 17.4 12.0 10.0 7.0 5.0 Maximum 45.5 21.2 18.6 13.0 10.6 7.5 5.5 Molossus sinaloae sinaloae , El Recreo, Nicaragua Average 4 (♂) 47.6 21.2 18.6 12.3 9.8 7.7 5.4 Minimum 46.7 20.7 18.3 12.0 9.7 7.6 5.3 Maximum 48.6 21.5 18.9 12.6 10.0 7.9 5.5 Average 10 (♀) 47.5 20.2 17.8 11.8 9.7 7.3 5.1 Minimum 46.2 20.0 17.6 11.5 9.5 7.1 5.0 Maximum 48.3 20.4 18.0 12.0 9.8 7.5 5.5 Among females from Departamento de Boaco, none of 18 collected on 20 February was pregnant, whereas three of four obtained on 4 April were gravid (embryos 13, 15, and 17 mm in crown-rump length) as was one (embryo 21 mm) taken on 18 July.
— from Noteworthy Records of Bats From Nicaragua, with a Checklist of the Chiropteran Fauna of the Country by J. Knox Jones
H says he told his wife in Danish, that we were Americans just like all others she would see, if she should ever reach New York!
— from Through Scandinavia to Moscow by William Seymour Edwards
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