This evidently refers to a portable set of dilators, each capable of fitting on a common handle, like Fritsch’s, Peaslee’s, or Lawson Tait’s of modern times.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

157 secondly, a sort of didactic episode, consisting of reflexions made by an old man on the vanity of human ambition, quite in the spirit of that true poetry which embraces the whole range of human existence; 158 and thirdly, another kind of episode which introduces the giant Adamastor, whom Camoens conjured up from the old world of fable to render him the spirit of the Cape of Good Hope.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 2 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

But in the meantime I wish no suspicion, or doubt even, cast on any one.”
— from The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship by Margaret Burnham

Our ages are perfectly suitable, our disposition entirely consonant, our habits so similar as to obviate all unpleasant changes, and our fortunes precisely what they ought to be to render a marriage happy, with confidence on one side, and gratitude on the other.
— from Home as Found Sequel to "Homeward Bound" by James Fenimore Cooper