"When the forces stood in array Edmund proposed to decide their claims 
by single combat; but Canute saying that he, a man of small stature, 
would have little chance against the tall athletic Edmund, proposed, on 
the contrary, for them to divide the realm as their fathers had done."
	-Thomas Keightley, _The History of England_. 1839.

"Hello, my baby
Hello, my honey
Hello, my ragtime gal
Send me a kiss by wire
Baby, my hearts on fire
If you refuse me
Honey, you'll lose me
Then you'll be left alone
Oh baby, telephone
And tell me I'm your own."
	-Ida Emerson and Joseph E. Howard, "Hello My Baby!"	

"I ought not to omit naming a vegetable which Mr Yates placed on 
our table, and to which he directed our attention. It was the 
Tchu-tchu (Sechium edule) called also by the people _pepinella_. 
It is a small gourd, very much like vegetable marrow; one seed 
covers a wall with its ramifications "
	-John Overton Choules, _The Cruise of the Steam Yacht
        North Star: A Narrative of the Excursion of Mr. Vanderbilt's
        Party to England, Russia, Denmark, France, Spain, Malta, Turkey,
        Madeira, Etc.  1854.

"The Litchi is the most celebrated native fruit of China.  It is 
nearly round, about an inch and a half in diameter, the shell is 
tough, becoming brittle, of a chocolate brown colour covered all 
over with wart-like protuberances. When fresh it is filled with a 
white almost transparent, sweet, jelly-like pulp in which lies a 
rather large, shining, brown seed; the pulp is of a delicious sub-acid 
flavour when fresh.  The Chinese dry it when it becomes black like 
a prune and thus preserve it for use throughout the year; in this state 
it is frequently to be seen in the London fruit shops."
	-John Smith, _A Dictionary of Popular Names of the Plants
        which Furnish the Natural and Acquired Wants of Man, in 
        All Matters of Domestic and General Economy: Their History,
        Products, & Uses. 1882. 

"The rambutan (_nephelium lappaceum_) is a beautiful fruit to which 
I have already alluded, as resembling the mammoth arbutus; and you suppose 
them at first, when at a little distance from you, a delicious dish of 
some tropical strawberry. But you find on inquiring into the 'particulars 
within' the outer coat, that there is concealed beneath the red and hairy 
covering a semi-transparent pulp of a pleasant acid taste, enveloping a 
single oval and oblong seed. I know not but I am peculiar in my memory 
of the beautiful fruits of the straits, but none lingers in my recollection 
so sweetly in its clustered beauties of the fruit-dish as the bearded 
and rosy rambutan.
	-Fitch Waterman Taylor, _A Voyage Round the World And Visits
        to Various Foreign Countries, in the United States Frigate 
        Columbia.  1847.

"I know not whether Laws be right,
  Or whether Laws be wrong;
All that we know who lie in gaol
  Is that the wall is strong;
And that each day is like a year,
  A year whose days are long."
	-Oscar Wilde, "Ballad of Reading Gaol"