Evening dresses are trimmed in a variety of ways, with puffings of crape, fringes, and ornaments, of the richest patterns […]

If we take the best cotton land, paying a land tax of Rupees 3-5-5 per cawnie, the proportion would be upwards of 33 per cent.

Iachimo: 'Tis plate of rare device, and jewels / Of rich and exquisite form, their values great.

The indris are distuinguished by having only thirty teeth. … The Indri (Indris laniger) is the largest known species of the lemurine Quadrumana, measuring when erect more than three feet in height, and is of very remarkable form. … The indris inhabit the forests of Madagascar. They are very gentle, and although not remarkable for intelligence, are trained by the natives (who call the indri, the man of the woods), to hunt, probably for birds.