See how that Tom, my sone, doth fare with posies in his hands- Methinks he minds to mend him where thy dochter waiting stands.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
The nest was a deep cup, whose foundation was a few leaves over which sone-grass was woven rather loosely.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
And if you should argue to this, that the heate, with whiche thei come, maketh theim more furious to incounter who that would withstande them, and lesse to regard the Pike, then the spurre: I saie, that if the horse so disposed, begin to see, that he must run upon the poincte of the Pike, either of himself, he wil refrain the course so that so sone as he shall feele himself pricked, he will stande still atones, or beeyng come to theim, he will tourne on the right, or on the lefte hande.
"Machiavelli, Volume I The Art of War; and The Prince"
Niccolò Machiavelli