They are, therefore, of all the beings in creation those which deserve the least commiseration; for they are protected against pain by that very ablation of the brain, the seat of pain.
"The Pros and Cons of Vivisection"
Charles Richet Commentator: W. D. Halliburton
And as the ends and ultimates of all things accord in some mean and measure with their inceptions and originals, that same multiplicit concordance which leads forth growth from birth accomplishing by a retrogressive metamorphosis that minishing and ablation towards the final which is agreeable unto nature so is it with our subsolar being.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
The first step towards this assurance is the ablation of the chronic Shaksperian comparison.
"Life of Robert Browning"
William Sharp