While on our way, we were deeply meditating upon, and carefully arranging all that was to be said and done, feeling how perilous it would be in a matter which required such extreme delicacy, to be compelled 'capere consilium ex Improviso.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
A shout of applause was followed by wild strummings and tunings of mandolins, and occasional scratching of heads or turbans, to remember all that Hafiz had ever written, or to aid their attempts at Improviso versification.
"The Pacha of Many Tales"
Captain Frederick Marryat
Assuming, then, manslaughter to be your pastime, and hari-kari not to be your bent, the phrase, to escape criminality, must rise in you as you would have it fall on him, ex Improviso.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith