Plutarch, on this occasion, uses the expression, diadaemati basiliko, a royal diadem.]
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Since the acquisition of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland by the treaty of Utrecht, the English dominions seemed to shut out from the sea the vast but sparsely peopled tracts along the St. Lawrence which still belonged to King Lewis.
— from A History of England Eleventh Edition by Charles Oman

Those animals, one and all, walk awkwardly, it always happening that when the extremities are modified to operate upon two essentially different media (as, for instance, the land and water), the maximum of speed is attained in neither.
— from Animal Locomotion; or, walking, swimming, and flying With a dissertation on aëronautics by James Bell Pettigrew

Navy report not one word spoken or movement made by any of these thousands of untried troops either during the transit over the water in the darkness or nearing the land when the bullets took their toll.
— from Gallipoli Diary, Volume 1 by Ian Hamilton

Two of these headlands ran out for a considerable distance, and at the base of each, ragged cruel-looking rocks stretched still further out into the ocean until they entirely disappeared beneath the heaving waste of waters, and only the sudden line of white foam every now and then streaking the dark green waves betrayed their treacherous presence to the idle eye.
— from Madame Midas by Fergus Hume

In the secluded rural district around Chirbury, the oldfashioned rustic Stage Plays held their own until the early decades of the present century, long after they had ceased elsewhere; and to this day one may occasionally meet with an ancient greybeard, who in his salad days has figured upon the boards.
— from Nooks and Corners of Shropshire by H. Thornhill (Henry Thornhill) Timmins

Plutarch, on this occasion, uses the expression, diadaemati basiliko, a royal diadem.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar by Suetonius

theer’s just twelve o’ us, the even dozen.
— from The Flag of Distress: A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid