aubergine:

I got five hundred pounds for that old car!

UFOs are reported as being either oblate (saucer-shaped) or prolate (cigar-shaped) spheroids.

[Gabriel] Andral states that he was in attendance upon an old woman suffering from a cancerous affection of the stomach, and that, a fortnight before her death, numerous purpurous spots appeared upon the skin, and at the same time a notable quantity of blood escaped daily with her urine.