In India the juice of the leaves is a popular remedy for earache.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

“Thus RUMLY floor’d, the kind Acestes ran, And pitying, raised from earth the game old man.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Why do you thus seek such a plausible reason for escaping from the Christian faith, if not because, as I again say, Christ is humble and ye proud?
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

[A3P] pant rapidly from exertion, overeating.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In the French province of Bourbonnais a popular remedy for epilepsy is a decoction of mistletoe which has been gathered on an oak on St. John’s Day and boiled with rye-flour.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

He has constantly pointed out that the Teutons are so far from being a pure race that they have, on the contrary, done everything in their power to ruin even the idea of a pure race for ever.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment; this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

By facing this double risk she obtained the double advantage of keeping the enemy under her eyes, and of sapping his efficiency by the easy life of port, while her own officers and seamen were hardened by the rigorous cruising into a perfect readiness for every call upon their energies.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

He felt like a prince returned from excile, and his lonely heart burgeoned in the geniality in which it bathed.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Some of these very colleagues of Lincoln at the Springfield bar have sat in Cabinets, have held their own on the floor of the Senate, have led armies in the field, have governed States, and all with a quiet self-reliance which was as far as possible removed from either undue arrogance or undue modesty.
— from Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 by John G. (John George) Nicolay

And inasmuch as, whatever practical people may say, this world is, after all, absolutely governed by ideas, and very often by the wildest and most hypothetical ideas, it is a matter of the very greatest importance that our theories of things, and even of things that seem a long way apart from our daily lives, should be as far as possible true, and as far as possible removed from error.
— from Science & Education: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

The watcher was compelled to remain outside the high iron railings, as he was unable to give any plausible reason for entering.
— from The Purple Fern by Fergus Hume

The space given for brood rearing is often too small, and frequently no care is given to secure the proper amount of brood in time to insure a population ready for each harvest.
— from Bee Keeping by Frank Benton

161-168 represent various types of army postmarks, regimental franks, etc., being used during the present campaign.
— from The Postage Stamp in War by Frederick John Melville

Hence the general rules common to all, and particular rules for each.
— from Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

" Julie feigned the most violent love for her royal admirer, nay she did not hesitate to carry her language and caresses far beyond the strict rules of decency; her manners were those of one accustomed to the most polished society, whilst her expressions were peculiarly adapted to please one who, like the king, had a peculiar relish for every thing that was indecent or incorrect.
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de

The Babbages at the Hall had a display of gold plate swaggering in the corner of the dining-room; and the visitor (restrained by a plush rope from examining the workmanship) was told the value, and so passed on.
— from Certain Personal Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

A proved remedy for every kind of ear disease, by Pserhofer.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

But though under the excellent officers at their head, these boards and bureaus do good work, they have not the authority of a general staff, and have not sufficient scope to insure a proper readiness for emergencies.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt