We are making a beginning, and we must perforce begin ab ovo, doing everything that has been left undone, and undoing, at times, some things that have been, and are being, done.
"The Operatic Problem"
William Johnson Galloway
Turning east on No. 36 at Rockville, they would have intercepted a barred rock hen and 11 chickens in front of ab Shalley's at Bellmore to the utter annihilation of the interceptees.
"Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana"
Durham, Andrew Everett
The three imperial secretaryships, a rationibus, a libellis, and ab epistulis, covered a vast field of administration, and the duties of these great ministries could only have been performed by men of great industry, talent, and diplomatic adroitness.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill