For the older "childther" there was something from Mrs. Lorimer's public house-something that was kept under cover and passed around late, and later still diluted and passed around again.
"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"
Alexander Irvine
The coffee had already been diluted with milk and a spoon stuck in it.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
The amount of abstract truth which the monologue is intended to convey is in itself small, and more diluted with exaggeration and falsehood than in any other poem of this group.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr