And then, in order that the city can execute its mission with even greater effectiveness, it continues adding on, stacking up, coupling, compounding, and amplifying, in that way helping to hasten its own demise.
"Down-with-the-Cities"
Nakashima, Tadashi
Flora took Peter's hand, that was callous and rough with the turning of brakes and the coupling of chains.
"Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush"
Ian Maclaren
Thinking it over later, and coupling the voice with the moral of those weird lines you repeated to ine so appositely the next day, I conclude that I am not mistaken when I say it was from your lips that the voice which preserved me came.
"Kenelm Chillingly, Book 8."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton