On this festival, the servants drive a herd of Yahoos into the field, laden with hay, and oats, and milk, for a repast to the Houyhnhnms; after which, these brutes are immediately driven back again, for fear of being noisome to the assembly.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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“Yes. You’ve heard of the Tolbooth, I imagine?”
I had. One of the most noisome and notorious prisons of the period, it was famous for filth, crime, disease, and darkness.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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Ambroise Paré. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey (published: Latin in 1579, English in 1649)