The real illness is weakness of calibre-a looseness of fibre.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
If the looseness can not be overcome in this way, the space may be filled by pouring in a thin paste of plaster of Paris.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
Charles Edward undoubtedly conferred upon two people, living in a day of excessive looseness of manners, the inestimable advantage of confining their love within the bounds of friendship, of crushing all that might have been base, of liberating all that could be noble, of turning what might have been merely a passion after the pattern of Rousseau into a passion after the pattern of Dante.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)