With this distinction, however, that our precedent rains either pass over us or to the southward, the direction of storms being E. N. E.; their precedent storms passing over or to the eastward of them as they move more to the northward.
— from The Philosophy of the Weather. And a Guide to Its Changes by T. B. (Thomas Belden) Butler
10 mm. measured from the top of "P," reaches "E." PROOF SET.
— from The Die Varieties of the Nesbitt Series of United States Envelopes by Victor Maximilian Berthold
The general effect was that of 'perambulating rainbows en petit surmounted by sable thunder-clouds.'
— from To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
In this important work Sir Theodore Andrea Cook, author of "Old Touraine," "Old Provence," "Rouen," etc., perhaps the most sympathetic and skilful English writer on French history and the romantic associations which linger around the Chateaux of France, presents a pageant of the great figures who surrounded the throne of such kings as François Premier and Louis Quatorze.
— from Fifty Years of Golf by Horace G. (Horace Gordon) Hutchinson
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