In the early 1800s the French malacologist Pierre Denys de Montfort published an account of a British ship of the line that he claimed had been sunk, and its crew devoured, by a Colossal octopus, or Kraken.

She remembered, too, when, after a long childish illness, her father had carried her in his arms to the garden, […]

I'll send an SOS to the world / I hope that someone gets my / Message in a bottle

In the 1995 Test Census, the Bureau plans to test the use of Postal Service letter carriers to identify vacant and nonexistent units when it mails census questionnaires.