Only in one place elsewhere have I felt that exact stimulus, and that was far west in the neighbouring land of Brittany, near the Point du RAZ, which stretches RAZor-like into the ocean, and in many respects strikingly resembles a bit of the Cornish coast.
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton
And I firmly believed that in a short time Yashek, who pushed me when I was skating, just as I was doing a "cobbler," so that, thanks to him, I all but broke my neck; that Voitek, who always made a pig's ear at me, and Yantek, who counted us-RAZ, dva, tshi-that all three, I say, would come and humbly ask me to explain a ritual question, for instance, concerning things improper for the touch, as a stone on Sabbath.
"Stories and Pictures"
Isaac Loeb Peretz
A general chase soon followed; but, I am sorry to say, they eluded our pursuit under cover of the thick weather, keeping close to their shore, by the passage du RAZ.
"Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I"
Sir John Ross
