Robert Q. Lewis wonders if everyone has heard about the Texas oillionaire who put in well-to-well carpeting. Hal Boyle, "Mailman Rescues Writer Again," Spokane Daily Chronicle, March 5, 1957
The oil and gas men’s day at the fair this year was an immense success from every viewpoint. It drew everything from the “rough neck” to the “oillionaire,” and it has come as an annual attraction. , “Oil and Gas Men Had Day at Louisiana Fair,” The Oil Weekly, November 13, 1920
... the barman had been of the opinion that the whole karaoke evening was going to be an utter bust; but then the little old man had sashayed into the room ... Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys, 2005
She too had endured some hard times and she too could sashay in a housecoat. Alan Cumming, "Introduction," to Goodbye to Berlin, 2012
He was translating into English the brilliant novel by Georges Perec, “La Disparition” – a lipogram written entirely without the letter “e.” Andy Martin, "The Treachery of Translators," New York Times, January 28, 2013
We received some short autobiographies and there was an oddly large number of lipograms about pirates. , "Contestant Lipograms: the Best of the Best," NPR, June 29, 2012
... all was suddenly upset by two witnesses ... whom the old Spanish buzwigs doated on as models of all that could be looked for in the best. Thomas De Quincey, "The Spanish Nun," Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers, Volume I, 1853
who, as Porson's brother-in-law, and a man of admirable sense and wit, had a no profound veneration for the buzzwig doctor. Mary Russell Mitford, "Letter to Miss Barrett, July 23, 1842," The Life of Mary Russell Mitford, 1870
It all seemed some sort of overblown, middle-American hysteria, a desire to adrenalize an otherwise sleepy existence. Adam Buckley Cohen, "A Psychological Twister," New York Times, May 28, 2011
Stocco is being touted as a guy who can adrenalize a program that has gone a mediocre 13-19 in the Big Ten over the last five years. Clete Campbell, "Stocco a cool QB," Telegraph-Herald, August 21, 2004
... she was usually all right about most things, if you woke her before she was ready she could get a bit shirty. Beryl Kingston, London Pride, 1991
There's no need to get shirty, young man. My ticket is right there. André Alexis, "Maupassant," Beauty and Sadness, 2010
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream," delivered August 28, 1963
Blight was most impressed by Douglass’s mental, physical and intellectual endurance, his “ability to still believe, and to demand a place in the country’s creed. , "Big New Biographies of Two Big American Lives," New York Times, November 9, 2018