The blacksmith's provincialism showed in his speech and manner

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.

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

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.