Careful Words

off (n.)

off (v.)

off (adv.)

off (adj.)

Off with his head!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 4.

Off with his head! so much for Buckingham!

Colley Cibber (1671-1757): Richard III. (altered). Act iv. Sc. 3.

While his off-heel, insidiously aside.

Provokes the caper which he seems to chide.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816): Pizarro. The Prologue.