And of course James Joyce uses the expresion (all be it somewhat "massacred" as is the rest of the text) in Finnigans Wake

"Bygmester Finnegan, of the Stuttering Hand, freemen's maurer, lived in the broadest way immarginable in his rushlit toofarback for messuages before joshuan judges had given us numbers
or Helviticus committed deuteronomy "