1938, Norman Lindsay,Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.:Ure Smith, published1962,→OCLC, page89:
He was badgered in that witness-box for an hour. By a distracting repetition of cross-examination he was forced to confess that he had seen and spoken to a humanbiped in broad daylight, yet could not recollect one singularity to distinguish this phantom from the flat mass of humanity.
2019 April 10,qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, inThere Is No Antimemetics Division,→ISBN, page138:
Luján, or, rather, thebiped which used to be Luján, walks right up to him. He is a little shorter than Wheeler, but much heavier-set. Rooted to the spot, not thinking clearly, Wheeler holds his violin up, as if this will shield him. The conductor takes the instrument from his unresisting hands and breaks its neck underfoot, perfunctorily, as if crushing a box for recycling.
