I[…]take care for the generall, to have a regardfull reſpect of that which you leave behind you.

George Washington's generalship was marked by both amazing victories and stunning blunders, neither of which would have happened to someone with more formal officer training.

In many names of animals, the same word with the same gender is used for both sexes: ἡ ἁλὠπηξ the fox, male or female. These are said to be epicoene.

Six days shalt thou labor and do all that thou art able, / And on the seventh holystone the deck and scrape the cable.