It instinctively desires that either the bond should be dissoluble, or that the subjects of it should be sacramentally strengthened to maintain it.
"Callista"
John Henry Cardinal Newman
The stream of time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabricks of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith
21. Thirdly, A Liquor may alter the Colour of a Body by making a Comminution of its Parts, and that principally two ways, the first by Disjoyning and Dissipating those Clusters of Particles, if I may so call them, which stuck more Loosely together, being fastned only by some more easily dissoluble Ciment, which seems to be the Case of some of the following Experiments, where you'l find the Colour of many Corpuscles brought to cohere by having been Precipitated together, Destroy'd by the Affusion of very peircing and incisive Liquors.
"Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664)"
Robert Boyle