Once a brawny humorist wrote to Doggie Trevor "Sursum cauda."
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
Upon these interjections, placable flicks of the lionly tail addressed to Britannia the Ruler, who expected him in some mildish way to lash terga cauda in retiring, Sir Willoughby Patterne passed from a land of alien manners; and ever after he spoke of America respectfully and pensively, with a tail tucked in, as it were.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
Murphy has practised resection of cicatricial or atrophied portions of the cauda, with end-to-end suture.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson