| Many modern editions, including the Oxford, take the view that the novel in part derives from the play, and use it to emend the defective quarto text. |
| You do not emend Housman, perhaps the most forbidding textual commentator in the history of English-speaking scholarship, and get off lightly. |
| The egg case secreted by the Cenozoic argonautids was shaped like Cretaceous ammonites, which their ancestors used to occupy and emend. |
| To borrow and slightly emend the words of Shakespeare: That cat will mew, but this dog will have the day. |
| To emend the Vulgate by the Hebrew and Greek is exactly what the heretics seek to do. |
| Most modern scholars emend the text of Pausanias and reidentify Herodotus's Pheidon as the grandson of the great man. |
