For quotations using this term, see Citations:Zamboni.

The morning of Major Ferguson's round had come again. It was the most detested event of the week: for the staff, because he expected the punctilio of a large teaching hospital to which the resources of the place were unequal; and for the patients because for an hour or more they would be virtually on parade unable to move from their beds, smoke or talk.

All the bumbling and ineffectual attempts of the animals to subdue the archrogue Reinaert add up to a strong impression that the epic was composed in this 13th-century form for the enjoyment of the newly confident 'middle' class of the Flemish cities.

[T]he Monterey was ablaze from stem to stern as Lieutenant Ford stood near the helm, awaiting his orders.