It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].

Homer useth that epithite of ox-eyed, in describing Juno, because a round black eye is the best

Mrs Sesemann had a wonderful piece-bag, with materials of all kinds and colours in it, and from these Heidi made dresses, coats, and aprons for the dolls.

The party left the town of Martaban on the 20th March; they passed two grassy and level islands just above the junction of the Gyein river with the main one. […] This inosculating river is about half the breadth of the Sanloon.