I'm getting a feel for what you mean.

She had many suitors but she lived only for Miss Pride who adored her and often had her do a toe-dance for her visitors who were often kings and queens.

The 1904 article by Gley on the toxic action of the serum of the torpedo Torpedo marmorata was noteworthy in that the author reported ichthyohemotoxins were not limited to eels, but were widely distributed in fishes.

Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, / Who long was a bookseller's hack.