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- 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, The present time
- About to break up that huge imposthume too, by ‘curing’ it? Turgot and Necker were nothing to this. God is great; and when a scandal is to end, brings some devoted man to take charge of it in hope, not in despair!
- 1599, Shakespeare, Hamlet: "This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace, / That inward breaks, and shows no cause without / Why the man dies" (4.4.26-8)