It would be tedious even to enumerate the points of importance to navigation among the Hebrides which had found a record in Norse speech before the names came into our sailing charts. The Skeirs and Skerries, Nesses and Fiords, Sounds and Wicks, beyond number, besides the many Eys (islands) scattered along the west coast, indicate something of the careful mode of their navigation, as well as the retentiveness of their memories in storing up the results of their seafaring experience.

[…] the brimme therof was as it were the brimme of a chalice, or of a crisped lilie:

Although I prefer small pica. Or as its sometimes known, philosophy. – Small pica, or philosophy, she said. It sounds like the title of a novel. With a girl heroine.

[…] , the pauldrons covered the back of the shoulders, motons were worn over a gusset of mail at the right armpit, and the elbow-plates were of large size.