And as we see with ceaslesse fluttering Flocking of seelly flies a brownish cloud To vintag'd wine yet working in the tonne, Not parting thence while they swete liquor taste: After, as smoke, all vanish in the aire, And of the swarme not one so much appeare.
"A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier"
Philippe de Mornay Robert Garnier
Horace Bixby, answering a call for pilots from the Missouri River, consigned his pupil, as was customary, tonne of the pilots of the "John J. Roe," a freight-boat, owned and conducted by some retired farmers, and in its hospitality reminding Sam of his Uncle John Quarles's farm.
"The Boys' Life of Mark Twain"
Albert Bigelow Paine
Among the stalls you can study the monsters,-twelve or fifteen feet long,-the shark, the vierge, the sword fish, the tonne,-or the eccentricities.
"Two Years in the French West Indies"
Lafcadio Hearn