to preserve order in a community or an assembly

But since this custome was probably disused before their Invasion or Conquest, and the Romanes confessedly practised the same, since their possession of this Island, the most assured account will fall upon the Romanes, or Brittains Romanized.

It would be extraordinarily bold of me to give it a try after seeing what has happened to you.

Exhausted, I canter through postpandrial naps atop a Senegalese camel, and in full beau geste. En avant, ma belle sabreuse! shouts Tintin into the teeth of the wind.