The muse, whose effusions are the amusement of a very small part of a polished nation, records, in the lays of inspiration, the history the laws, the very religion, of savages.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
He added that medicine owed as much to Auenbrugger for his rational method of treating effusions into the pleural cavity, whether of pus or serum, as for his diagnostic sign by which the presence of the fluid could surely be recognized.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
Mollie's girlish effusions were very innocent and loving.
"Lover or Friend"
Rosa Nouchette Carey