So amongſt our late writers; whileſt Proteſtants cut off the authority from all Papized writers of that age, and Romaniſts caſt away the witneſſe of all Imperialized authours then living (ſuch as Urſpergenſis [i.e., Burchard of Ursperg] is, and generally all Germanes) counting them testes domeſticos, and therefore of no validitie, betwixt them they draw all hiſtorie of that time very ſlender, and make it almoſt nothing.

The most fitting occupation for my mother is no longer a stage actress or momager or anything like that; she would make—she is—a fantastic nurse.

The blacksmith's provincialism showed in his speech and manner

[…]his hand, more ſad [i.e., heavy, hard] then lomp of lead,[…]