When it does it will be time to resort to that hearth-broom, and restrict combustion with collected caput-mortuum of Derby-Brights, selected, twenty-seven shillings.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
"Poesy," he says in the preface to his translation from the Aeneid, "is of so subtle a spirit that in the pouring out of one language into another it will all evaporate; and if a new spirit be not added in transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum."
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
Septimus liber probat ex Scriptura quod Romana Ecclesia sit caput totius Ecclesiae Christianae.
"The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, August 1865"
Society of Clergymen