A variation on this type of normalization consists of using a combination of startword lists and exclusion classes, e.g. remove all comparative adjectives except those in a domain list.

In his Satires we find what we may call a mellowed souredness of spirit, like the taste of the plum or sloe when touched by the first frosts.

[…]this fellow wil but ioyne you together, as they ioyne / Wainscot, then one of you wil proue a ſhrunke pannell[…]

Nick found a set of Trollope which had a relatively modest and approachable look among the rest, and took down The Way We Live Now, with an armorial bookplate, the pages uncut.