He was most anxious to secure for himself the priority of discovery, and yet he was unwilling to make a premature and possibly incorrect announcement. So he resorted to the ingenious device of a "logogriph," or puzzle. It appears ... as follows: aaaaaaa ccccc d eeeee g h iiiiiii llll mm nnnnnnnnn oooo pp q rr s ttttt uuuuu Harold Jacoby, Astronomy: A Popular Handbook, 1913
That one man should have possessions beyond the capacity of extravagance to squander, and another, able and willing to work, should perish for want of embers, rags and a crust, renders society unintelligible. It makes the charter of human rights a logogriph. John J. Ingalls, “John J. Ingalls on the Social Malady,” Sunday Herald, June 11, 1893
Sometimes, when reading one of his works, I wonder whether Mr. Lawrence has not mistaken his medium, and whether it is not a painter he ought to have been, so significant is for him the slaty opalescence of the heron's wing and so rutilant the death of the sun. W. L. George, "Three Young Novelists," Literary Chapters, 1918
She looks up occasionally, between cross stitches, to gaze upon the steady stream of tourists stopping to admire the rutilant, shimmering sandstone folds unfurling 4,000 feet below. Sam McManis, "Discoveries: Grand Canyon's South Rim crowded but not overbearing," Sacramento Bee, July 25, 2015
It was after eleven when William in his socks made his way to the attic where the trimmings for the tree were stored. Mary Roberts Rinehart, "The Butler's Christmas Eve," Alibi for Isabel, 1944
Painting china, carving wood, button-holing butterflies and daisies onto Turkish towelling, and making peacock-feather trimming, amused her for a time ... Louisa May Alcott, "What Becomes of the Pins," Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 5: Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, Etc., 1879
When you want to get up again, you sort of scrooch forward and the chair comes up straight so you don't have to dislocate your sciatica trying to get out of the pesky thing. Charlotte MacLeod, Something the Cat Dragged In, 1984
Myr Korso, please tell him to scrooch down if he has to be there. James Tiptree, Jr., Brightness Falls from the Air, 1985
The back of his state-issued S.U.V. is stacked with notebooks filled with ideas and data culled from books and articles and conversations with nearly four hundred experts; it’s a kind of rolling athenaeum. Tad Friend, "Gavin Newsom, the Next Head of the California Resistance," The New Yorker, November 5, 2018
At the top of the main staircase, with patterned risers and leather-covered treads, a bedroom was turned into the Athenaeum, or classical library. Julie Lasky, "A Victorian Wonderland in Park Slope," New York Times, March 16, 2018
... the Goulet postiche is guaranteed to blend imperceptibly with the wearer's own hair, for I refuse to settle for anything less than a perfect match. Catherine Chidgey, The Transformation, 2003
... when the hair had been thoroughly dyed it could only recover its natural colour by this slow process, but that usually the effect was concealed by a postiche ... Laurence Oliphant, Piccadilly, 1870
... I could see that she was doing her best to irritate me with the brusquerie of her answers. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gambler (1866), translated by C. J. Hogarth, 1917
I hope you have not been so foolish as to take offence at any little brusquerie of mine ... Edgar Allan Poe, "The Gold-Bug," Philadelphia Dollar Magazine, 1843