Girls are always trying to find something which they can make to delight their papas, and a gay little pen-wiper with fresh uninked leaves rarely comes amiss to a man who likes an orderly writing-table.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The coral faded even from her lips, till they were as white as Leo's face, and quivered pitifully.”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:
[T]his (venter impiorum inſaturabilis [the insatiable belly of the wicked]) in foure & tvventie houres conſumes many carkaſſes of Fiſhes and Fovvles, and generally tvvice a day all the fleſh therein interred; ſo true a Sarcophagus is the belly: […]
A figurative use.
His fiery eies are fixt vpon the earth.
As if he now deuiſ’d some Stratageme:
Or meant to pierce Auernus darkſome vauts.
To pull the triple headed dog from hell.
