The young captain listened, therefore, to a scheme propounded to him by Colonel cosine, and Deacon Volmar, in the name of Leicester.
"History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89, Vol. II. Complete"
John Lothrop Motley Last Updated: February 7, 2009
The trisector of an angle, if he demand attention from any mathematician, is bound to produce, from his construction, an expression for the sine or cosine of the third part of any angle, in terms of the sine or cosine of the angle itself, obtained by help of no higher than the square root.
"A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)"
Augustus de Morgan
cosine farewell: and Vncle bid him so: Six yeares we banish him, and he shall go.
"Richard-II"
Shakespeare, William