It may be noted that the tooth forceps was evidently a ‘universal’, as no special variety is ever mentioned beyond the two I have given—‘tooth’ and ‘stump’.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

Of Asarabacca: the roots are a safer purge than the leaves, and not so violent, they purge by vomit, stool, and urine; they are profitable for such as have agues, dropsies, stoppings of the liver, or spleen, green sickness.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

“We kept the smack in a cove about five miles higher up the coast than this; and it was our practice, in fine weather, to take advantage of the fifteen minutes’ slack to push across the main channel of the Moskoe-str�m, far above the pool, and then drop down upon anchorage somewhere near Otterholm, or Sandflesen, where the eddies are not so violent as elsewhere.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Are not such verses considered a blemish in Italian prose?”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

i n suppliciis excruciandus, mancipetur, cum Dathan et Abiram, et cum his qui dixerunt Domino Deo, Recede a nobis, scientiam viarum tuarum nolumus: et ficut aqua ignis extinguatur lu- vel eorum cerna ejus in secula seculorum nisi resque- n n rit, et ad satisfactionem venerit.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

True ideas would never have been singled out as such, would never have acquired a class-name, least of all a name suggesting value, unless they had been useful from the outset in this way.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

“We kept the smack in a cove about five miles higher up the coast than this; and it was our practice, in fine weather, to take advantage of the fifteen minutes’ slack to push across the main channel of the Moskoe-ström, far above the pool, and then drop down upon anchorage somewhere near Otterholm, or Sandflesen, where the eddies are not so violent as elsewhere.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Here at a stroke of the pen was erected a government of millions of men,—and not ordinary men either, but black men emasculated by a peculiarly complete system of slavery, centuries old; and now, suddenly, violently, they come into a new birthright, at a time of war and passion, in the midst of the stricken and embittered population of their former masters.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

“What, in finding you?” “I am not so vain as to fancy it possible that you should accept that as a reward, Miss Vincent,” he replied.
— from Daireen. Complete by Frank Frankfort Moore

Crawley, straining his eyes after the hounds, and not sitting very tight, was thrown forward when the horse rose, and, when he alighted, lost his stirrup, reeled, and came over on to mother earth; and when he rose to his feet he had the mortification to see Sir Robert careering away in great delight, and he proceeded to plod through the heavy ground after him.
— from Dr. Jolliffe's Boys by Lewis Hough

Spier, Leslie , Blackfoot Relationship Terms, American Anthropologist , N. S. vol. 17, 1915, pp. 603-607.
— from Culture & Ethnology by Robert Harry Lowie

In the next place, your fastenings are not so very secure.
— from With Wolfe in Canada: The Winning of a Continent by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

“If you can think,” said Pentaur smiling, “you are not so very bad.”
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Complete by Georg Ebers

He is an orphan, though he is cared for in a way by relations, who are not so very rich, yet are looked on as well fixed.
— from Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (Illustrated) by Lewis Carroll

Whether this might proceed from a Law-suit which was then depending in the Family, or my Father's being a Justice of the Peace, I cannot determine; for I am not so vain as to think it presaged any Dignity that I should arrive at in my future Life, though that was the Interpretation which the Neighbourhood put upon it.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

"Coming back from the Indies, and not so very long, either, after the French king had made him a lieutenant of his navy--perhaps because he was a villain.
— from Across the Salt Seas: A Romance of the War of Succession by John Bloundelle-Burton

All this, as Scott himself clearly perceived, was left confused, and not simply vague.
— from Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) by Richard Holt Hutton