One of the most elaborate extant examples of this genre is a speech by Libanius, an ethopoeia of Medea as she is about to kill her children.

This locomotive develops 130,000 pounds of tractive effort.

[F]ormer MP Garth Turner’s new book . . . is entitled Sheeple, a term apparently applied to people who often take on the characteristics—curly white hair covering most of the body, fondness for grazing, tendency to do as told—of sheep.

The problem, as many people knew, was that Gus had go fever: he was itching to fly this spacecraft.