"...They say there go Grizzly Bear got no clothes to wear
They say I'm all hung up bein' nowhere
Yeah but the girls they love my clows and my great big chompin' jaws
Lemme tell you that I howl yowl and growl like a grizzly bear...." - Shel Silverstein, Grizzly Bear

"In a minute, regarding this again, he perceived that his judgment was in fault, for over this struggle circled a number of birds, jackdaws and gulls for the most part, the latter gleaming blindingly when the sunlight smote their wings, and they seemed minute in comparison with it. And his curiosity was, perhaps, aroused all the more strongly because of his first insufficient explanations." - HG Wells The Sea Raiders

"Lady Middleton piqued herself upon the eleogance and extravagance of her table, and all her domestic arrangements, she loved to surprise English visitors with displays of hospitality native to her homeland, such as flavouring her soups with monkey urine and not telling anyone she had done so util the bowl had been drained."  - Ben H. Winters, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters