The tunnel's mouth was bricked up because it was unsafe.

He moved to the tantalus, poured her a glass of the sherry she preferred, and, holding his own as well, carried the glass of Jerez to her.

The suitors are just as delightfully and professionally evil: the tyrant of Agrigentum points out as an objective fact that they obtain their tyrantships by underhand villainy (πανουργία) rather than by force.

Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom.