W ake ye! S leeping S on of P endennis, or by the G oddess S i[l]va, I will E xecute D ire V engeance [ img ] U pon you! E ven as I once was the I nstigator of L ove, upon Y ou may be, L ove I nstigated!
— from Love Instigated: The Story of a Carved Ivory Umbrella Handle by Douglass Sherley

" --This d xxv Description is very little applicable to Humour , but tolerably well adapted to other Subjects.--Thus, a Person, who is happy in a particular Grace, which accompanies all his Actions, may be said to possess a singular and unavoidable Manner of doing or saying any thing, peculiar and natural to him only, by which his Speech and Actions are distinguished from those of other Men .
— from An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) by Corbyn Morris

13) and are called upon to praise Jehovah (Ps. cxlviii. 7); and Isaiah (xxxiv.), describing in vivid and picturesque language the destruction and
— from Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art With Special Reference to Their Use in British Heraldry by John Vinycomb