It had a peculiar alien tallness, a peculiar alien flattened head, peculiar slitty little alien eyes[.]

This was the healing ritual for the King's Evil, the name given to scrofula or struma, the tubercular inflammation of the lymph glands of the neck.

Strabo […] makes Corœbus the firſt Victor at the firſt Olympiad of Iphitus; who, he ſaies, was the Reſtorer of them. This Olympiad was in the Year before Chriſt 776.

News bulletins on television may need general rather than specific footage. This is known as wallpaper — moving pictures over which the news item is read.