While most of the marks are simple and of a universal nature, a few were later used as signs in the Indus script.

I also asked the great favour of him, as he would sit next to me in the canoe, to smoke as little as possible, as it always made me sick, and gave me a head-ache, to which he replied that he only smoked the kinnekinnic, which is a mild preparation […]

Shut up, both of you. I've got the police here. You'll get asboed, Sally shouted

When thou present’st me, Gellia, with an Hare, Marcus, thou say’st, ’twill make the seven Days fair. If Hare be such a beautifying Meat, Thou ne’er of one in all thy Life didst eat.