It is needless to point out here how involved and intricate such a process would be, because the mutation theory has cut the gordian knot and given a simpler solution of the origin of such diandromorphic and digynomorphic conditions.
"Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila"
Thomas Hunt Morgan Calvin B. Bridges
Just as Helen mischievously and irreverently kicked me on the shin under the table, Uncle Peter cut the gordian knot of his rhetoric by a loud "Amen."
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
There is therefore no alternative but to cut the gordian knot, and to declare that the liberty which the vast majority of men believe themselves to exercise every instant, is proved by Science to be no better than a pure dogma, that is to say, a mere figment.
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard