When I look at my face, and compare it with the aged features which appear to me in these pages, then I find that I have made the most retrograde movement, and have again arrived at an age, at which even you did not know me; at a time when I never thought of death, though I touched it daily with my Dissecting knife; then I had no more thought of it, than a child's doctor has of catching the measles.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
Go to the medical college Dissecting room and see the lungs of a man who inhaled smoke, and you will quit the habit if you have been guilty.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter
Lillo's presence in New York-he had come over from Paris for the first time in twelve years, to arrange the exhibition of his pictures-gave to the analysis of his methods as personal a flavor as though one had been furtively Dissecting his domestic relations.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton