1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 142:The men bestow their times in fishing, hunting, warres, and such manlike exercises, scorning to be seene in any woman-like exercise, which is the cause that the women be very painefull, and the men often idle.
1843, , Past and Present (book), Book 2, Ch. 2For twenty generations, here was the earthly arena where painful living men worked out their life-wrestle
