Bacciferous trees, are such as bear berries; as the juniper and yew-tree. Charlotte Matilda Hunt, The Little World of Knowledge, 1826
The rays of the sun are essential to the proper development of all fruits, yet some, especially the bacciferous, demand a certain amount of shade in Summer and protection in Winter ... E. Daggy, "Douglas County Horticultural Society," Transactions of the Illinois State Horticultural Society, Volume II, 1869
In North America we tend to Disneyfy the past into this sugar-coated nostalgia product, all bonnets and merry sleigh rides ... Emma Donoghue, Landing, 2007
... Dad says you have to look at animals as they are, not Disney-fy them. Rosamund Lupton, The Quality of Silence, 2015
But what if the spaceship breaks the speed of light? Now, we are entering the purely theoretical realm of superluminal travel. The spaceship is outracing the light it emits, so when the spaceship takes off, it leaves its own light in the space-dust. David Russell, "Can You Really Go Back in Time by Breaking the Speed of Light?" PBS, August 17, 2015
The Alderson Drive gave us access to the stars at superluminal speeds--but not instantaneous transportation. Jerry Pournelle and S. M. Stirling, Go Tell the Spartans, 1991
... the schlemiel is the one who spills the soup and the schlimazel is the one that's spilled on. Jeremy Dauber, Jewish Comedy: A Serious History, 2017
A recent and, even by its own lofty standards, especially hilarious and cringingly tasteless episode of “South Park” features the passionate and petulant schlimazel, middle-aged dad Randy Marsh, watching TV, when a commercial for a fictional consumer genetics company comes on the screen. Misha Angrist, "A History of Humanity Told Through Genetics," New York Times, November 17, 2017
So much of their business was done via e-mail that the phone was almost unnecessary--a sort of quaint atavism that nobody thought to use first--but this morning the ringing had been ceaseless. Debra Ginsberg, What the Heart Remembers, 2012
Because the United States has proved successful in absorbing people from so many different backgrounds, the American political elite has, since the mid-20th century at least, tended to look on group identity as a kind of irrational atavism. Park MacDougald, "Can America's Two Tribes Learn to Live Together?" New York, April 19, 2018
... he was too old to doss on furniture night after night. Coleen Nolan, Envy, 2010
I didn't want a place to doss down. Jonathan Gash, The Gondola Scam, 1984
“What's a brontide?” she said, keeping him from bolting. ... "They're like thunder on a clear day. They're like the unexplained sounds of artillery when there's no battle." Gary Fincke, "Faculty X," Emergency Calls, 1996
... he urges that brontides predominate in countries which are subject to earthquakes, that they are often heard as heralds of earthquakes, and are specifically frequent during seismic series, and that brontides are sometimes accompanied by very feeble tremors. Charles Davison, A Manual of Seismology, 1921