And yet perhaps we shall be induced to believe, that all their surprise and uneasiness would have quietly subsided, if an unfortunate, and, in fact, merely partial altercation had not excited it beyond its original intensity, and produced a momentary determination to get rid by any means of such troublesome encroachers.
"A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16"
Robert Kerr
For Keepers, shy of such encroachers, Dog us about like common poachers!
"The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood"
Thomas Hood