Mrs. Poyser, in George Eliot's Adam Bede.
called him Selim, to express
The marked s(e)limness of his form.
Songs of Singularity.
ES," he exclaimed, "as the sublime Tyndall tells us, let us struggle to attain to a deeper knowledge of matter, and a more faithful conformity to its laws!"
The professor would have proceeded, but the weather had been rapidly growing rough, and he here became violently sea-sick.
"Let us," he exclaimed hurriedly, "conform to the laws of matter and go below."
W. H. Mallock, The New Paul and Virginia.
HAT can Tommy Onslow do?
He can drive a curricle and two.
Can Tommy Onslow do no more?
Yes, he can drive a phaeton and four.