Out came a great company of Bandogs and mastifes, more fit to pul down bears and lions than me, whom when I beheld I thought verily I should presently die: but I turned myself about, and ranne as fast as ever I might to the stable from whence I came.
"The Golden Asse"
Lucius Apuleius
That old red-bearded snake, the shikari, has sent the Colonel into a seventh heaven of anticipation by pointing to the encircling forest with promise of "pul-lenty baloo, sahib, this pul-lace."
"A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil"
T. R. Swinburne
Their daughter pulcheria, was commonly called "pul" for short, to save time, excepting when the old man spoke of her by preference as "the poor child."
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers