The Figure Eight knot is similar to the over-hand knot except that the loose end of the rope is passed through the loop from the opposite side.
— from The Use of Ropes and Tackle by W. A. (William Armour) Pearl

This was the kitchen, enormous; then the larder, enormous, and the scullery still more enormous (with a pump-handle flanking the slopstone)!
— from These Twain by Arnold Bennett

But somehow they'd doped out a one-piece union suit cut high in the neck with sort of a knickerbocker effect to the lower end.
— from Torchy and Vee by Sewell Ford