Early the next moming I walked into a fish-house near our hotel, where three or four men were engaged in trundling out the pickled fish on barrows, and spreading them to dry.

The tractile efforts should be made during the continuance of the labor pains, if the latter are frequent and regular, and suspended in the interval between them.

2020, Andrew Solender, “'He Wasn't Born Here': Trump Birthers Biden Near Scranton Ahead Of DNC Acceptance Speech”, in Forbes:

What is striking in the innovations of both Solon and Cleisthenes is the establishment of a governing body that was suprafamilial, in which the members of the council functioned as citizens—as representatives of the city-state (polis) as such—rather than as representatives of the family (oikos) or clan (genos).