"The hooks have got to come off and I can wait. They are nothing but sore fingers."

"He was notable throughout a brief, thwarted career for the charm of his manner and his chivalrous ideals in public li…"

"I...was very different from the raw Irish lads who composed the greater part of the subalterns. One of them, of the n…"

"It is true that some physicians are vain, self-seeking, of the prima donna type, and there be others of the medieval …"

"They do also find other beasts, whereof some are as big as an oxe, others are lesse, which they call Empalanges: then…"

"[The Corsicanes] are so full of revenge, as the Italians have a common proverbe which saith, That they must never tru…"

"The king of Spaine receives from this Estate [Milan] yearely eight hundred thousand duc∣kats of ordinarie, besides th…"

"In the province of Bamba, there is a mountaine, where they find many mynes of silver, and other mettalls. They have a…"

"In the time of Kaykozrrao, there were in Persia two famous Philosophers, the one called Horez, the other Lokmon: of t…"

"The Hippopotame, or horse of the river, is tawnie, hath little haire, and leapes to land to feed, and in the day time…"