[Y]ears ago I placed a geasa on a baby girl. It was that if she ever saw a three-legged fox, she should follow it. Last year she saw a fox that had three legs, and she followed her geasa. She found a young man sitting by a stream.

Provided that in estates in which before the passing of this Act engagements have been taken from the landholder for the payment of the land revenue and settlement cesses in one consolidated sum, ... one-forty-oneth part of such sum shall be deducted on account of such cesses —Local Rates (Oudh), Act no. V. 1894, Part II, The Consolidated Local Rate, 3, p. 103. Legislative Acts of Lieutenant Governor, 1887–1901, with amendments. United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (India)

Caine, he said, might be a budding Shakespeare but in Shakespeare's time all it took to put on a play was a barn, a crude stage, […]

Beginning with paganica in Ancient Rome, golf has had many ancestors in many distant lands, all similar in one way or another to the game we know today.