| 1. | To heal the scarr of these corrosive Fire. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | Martyrdom is sublimation, corrosive sublimation. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | Then give it a coat of aqua vitae in which you have dissolved arsenic or corrosive sublimate. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 4. | After completion of laconic epistolary compositions she abandoned the implement of calligraphy in the encaustic pigment, exposed to the corrosive action of copperas, green vitriol and nutgall. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |