He creaked to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the altitude of a chopine […]

Behind the hair is fixed a brass plate, which I call a bolster, because it stays the hair whilst it performs the work, and then the cane or chain is taken through all the tackle, and fastened to a breast roll, and set to work with double mounture of all sorts (videlicet) sixteen tumblers, sexteen lamms or countermeshes, and nine treadles.

He'll ſcreed you aff Effectual Calling, / As faſt as ony in the dwalling.— …

Either a Wildman of West Africa or an ancient encounter with an anthropoid ape. […] Significant sighting: Hanno the Carthaginian discovered Gorillaï on his voyage along the African coast in the early fifth century b.c. and is said to have taken two skins back to Carthage, where they were displayed in the Temple of Juno.