Both words in one sentence
- Then Bois-Guilbert has a stroke and falls dead despite not even being touched by Ivanhoe's lance.
Source: You Can Barely Stand - QI described an Elizabethan mathematician, John Napier, who "encouraged his servants to stroke his cock" - one of them had been stealing, and he got them all together and told them his pet cockerel could tell when someone who touched it was lying.
Source: Lying to the Perp
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