He picked up a stapled sheaf of papers from his desk.
"The Sword"
Frank Quattrocchi
The next minute he was asleep with the stapled ruffians all around him."
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot
Artists have so diligently falsified the view, ad captandum, that you will have some difficulty in recognising so old a friend as the Logan: it is commonly drawn as if isolated, thus, and would so, no doubt, be very astonishing; but, when my memory puts it as above, stapled, and obliged to remain for Cockneys to log it, surrounded by a much more imposing brotherhood, my wonder only is that it keeps its lion character, and that, considering the easy explication of its natural cause or accident, it should ever have been conceived to be man's doing; perhaps the Druids availed themselves of so lucky a chance for miracle-mongering, but as to having contrived it, you might as well say that they built the cliffs.
"My Life as an Author"
Martin Farquhar Tupper