Aristotle's striking biological doctrine that the generative seminal heat is a "nature which is analogous to the element of the stars" appears to be an obvious source of those seeming fantasies, written down eighteen centuries later, at which Harvey girds when he says: "For what we so commonly would fetch from the stars is born at home."
— from Harvey's Views on the Use of the Circulation of the Blood by John Green Curtis

To them it seemed sound argument that a dozen Englishmen could larrup, almost with their neckties, thirty or forty of such fellows as they were like to meet with.
— from Dariel: A Romance of Surrey by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore