[T]he landlord, starting up at the well known sound, cried, “Odd's niggers! there is the commodore with his company, as sure as I live!”

[…] the result was a warning to all exhibition organisers about the dangers of overpromising and underdelivering when promoting events.

The decoration of the vault of Sainte-Chapelle was much brighter before its 19th-century restoration.

Laſt of all fit a Triangular Iron, whoſe angular point being laid to the Center of the Dyal Plane, one ſide muſt agree with the Subſtilar Line, and its other ſide with the Stilar Line; ſo is the Stile made. And this Stile you muſt erect perpendicularly over the Subſtilar Line on the Dyal Plane, and there fix it. Then is your Dyal finiſhed.