To attempt, therefore, to give names to such imperfect fragments of undeveloped plants is almost as absurd as to name a flowering plant from a stray fragment of a root-fibril accidentally cast out of the ground-nay, even worse, for identification would probably be easier.
"Fungi: Their Nature and Uses"
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
You cannot find me a being so defaced, so alienated from the common stock of humanity, as to cherish in his bosom no secret fount of love, no fibril of affection linking him to something else.
"Humanity in the City"
E. H. Chapin
As it is pulled off it is noticed that there are numerous fibril-like processes hanging to its inner surface, and which draw out from the substance of the bone.
"Diseases of the Horse's Foot"
Harry Caulton Reeks