1620: Francis Bacon, Novum Organum Scientiarum For the two commended rules by him set down, whereby the axioms of sciences are precepted to be made convertible, and which the latter men have not without elegancy surnamed, the one the rule of truth because it preventeth deceit;

Even if you like peanut butter sandwiches, eating the same sandwiches day in, day out will get old.

After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and […] abandoned the field to the enemy.

The woman served him sullenly, placing some sobby biscuits and a piece of cold bacon on his plate, and pouring out a glass of buttermilk with a vicious thrust of the pitcher.