Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom.

He moved to the tantalus, poured her a glass of the sherry she preferred, and, holding his own as well, carried the glass of Jerez to her.

The tunnel's mouth was bricked up because it was unsafe.

The suitors are just as delightfully and professionally evil: the tyrant of Agrigentum points out as an objective fact that they obtain their tyrantships by underhand villainy (πανουργία) rather than by force.