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I myself not long ago met with an appearance which bore a much closer resemblance to drops of blood than this, and which yet was referrible to a widely different origin.

From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry

Old spellings are retained, e.g. musquitoes, felspar, Esquimaux, kaiyacks, imbedded, incloses, inclosing, inquiry, inquiries, moveable, incrusted, trowsers, bivouack, referrible, teazing.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John

Crimes are referrible to two potent passions of the human soul; malice, engendering thirst for revenge, and the insatiable lust of money.

From At the Mercy of Tiberius by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

The measure of the progress of Britain from the Stone period upwards, partly referrible to indigenous development, partly to Gallic, and partly to Phœnician, intercourse, is to be found in these coins.

From The Ethnology of the British Islands by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

The cases referrible to this head may be ranged under two sections according as the increase is due to plurality of ordinarily single organs, or to an increase in the number of verticils or whorls.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.