We label him with two or three sesquipedalia verba, give his territorial range, describe his notes and his habits of nidification, and fancy we have rendered an account of the bird.
"Birds in the Bush"
Bradford Torrey
Thank Heaven, we have not yet come to think that the highest form of wisdom is enshrined in the sesquipedalia monstra of chemical formulae, still less in the extreme abstractions of mathematics.
"Nature Mysticism"
J. Edward Mercer
We cannot explain the peculiarly dignified, impressive, sonorous nature of Semitic sound and parlance; its sesquipedalia verba with their crowd of affixes and prefixes, each of them affirming its own position, whilst consciously bearing upon and influencing the central root-which they envelope like a garment of many folds, or as chosen courtiers move around the anointed person of the king.
"The Faith of Islam"
Edward Sell