Like a good nimrod he hunts silently.
"Ways of Wood Folk"
William J. Long
How, or when, or where this singular courtship had been carried on, I have not been able to learn; nor how she has been able, with the vinegar of her disposition, to soften the stony heart of old nimrod: so, however, it is, and it has astonished every one.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Among these may doubtless be numbered that of the crusader's ghost, which I have mentioned in the account of my Christmas visit; and another about the hard-riding Squire of yore; the family nimrod; who is sometimes heard in stormy winter nights, galloping, with hound and horn, over a wild moor a few miles distant from the Hall.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving