Citations:flat


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Envy hath spoken, I never said aught but this, That what rule, or laws, or customs, or people, were flat against the Word of God, are diametrically opposite to Christianity.
 * With that Guilt, with a great club that was in his hand, struck Little-faith on the head, and with that blow felled him flat to the ground, where he lay bleeding as one that would bleed to death.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Oh, a wonderful pudding! Bob Cratchit said, and calmly too, that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs. Cratchit since their marriage. Mrs. Cratchit said that now the weight was off her mind, she would confess she had had her doubts about the quantity of flour. Everybody had something to say about it, but nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family. It would have been flat heresy to do so. Any Cratchit would have blushed to hint at such a thing.


 * 1881 — Ernestine Rose, A Defence of Atheism, J.P. Mendum, page 7
 * The Bible tells us that the Earth was flat and stationary, and the sun moves around the Earth. Copernicus and Galileo flatly deny this flat assertion, and demonstrate by astronomy that the Earth is spherical, and revolves around the sun.