I say by his fault, but I should have said by the fault of his doctors, who treated him Mercurially for a disease which was not venereal; and this treatment not only killed him but took away his good name.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
That is, of course, something you get in greater quantity, though not such intense quality, in a London 'block,' but there is something more fluent, more Mercurially impatient, in a New York street jam, which our nerves more vividly partake.
"Imaginary Interviews"
W. D. Howells
But the charger that he rode So Mercurially strode That the prince on one occasion left the others in the lurch, And the falling darkness found him, With no vassals left around him, Near a building like an abbey, Or a shabby Ruined church.
"Grimm Tales Made Gay"
Guy Wetmore Carryl