In all other maladies, we seek for help, if a leg or an arm ache, through any distemperature or wound, or that we have an ordinary disease, above all things whatsoever, we desire help and health, a present recovery, if by any means possible it may be procured; we will freely part with all our other fortunes, substance, endure any misery, drink bitter potions, swallow those distasteful pills, suffer our joints to be seared, to be cut off, anything for future health: so sweet, so dear, so precious above all other things in this world is life: 'tis that we chiefly desire, long life and happy days, [2757] multos da Jupiter annos , increase of years all men wish; but to a melancholy man, nothing so tedious, nothing so odious; that which they so carefully seek to preserve
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Delphinenort was improved and partly reconstructed inside by a swarm of workmen.
— from Royal Highness by Thomas Mann

The last portrait to which we shall at present refer is by another hand; and was sketched when the health of the caricaturist was a grave source of apprehension, since we learn that during the last two years of his life he was a severe sufferer.
— from Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 1 by Joseph Grego

was sent to me, from a physician residing in Bristol; anonymously was put into the boxes at Bethesda Chapel 2s., ditto 1l., and ditto 2s.
— from A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. Part 4 by George Müller

They are made in a fine terra cotta, which has turned of a pale red in baking, and are colored with a cretaceous coating, so as greatly to resemble Greek pottery.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2: Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

Rome had established the longest peace in history by subjugating all her rivals and creating a Pax Romana imposed by a world-wide Empire.
— from Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 by Various

While he stood there she took a large hat from her head and presently replaced it by a black toque with a single darting cock's feather athwart it.
— from Command by William McFee

He did not know about the bell, and probably rang it by accident as he leaned over to listen if Vail still breathed.
— from The After House by Mary Roberts Rinehart

ANOTHER PRIVATE RESIDENCE IN BUENOS AIRES WATER WORKS BUILDING, BUENOS AIRES
— from The Argentine Republic by Anonymous

The Condor 515 Cape Froward (Patagonia), Strait of Magellan 517 Fuegians Visiting a Man-of-war 519 A Fuegian Feast 521 The Signs of Civilization 523 Port Famine 526 Starvation Beach 529 Use of Lasso and Bolas 531 In their Ostrich Robes 532 A Patagonian Belle 533 The Guanaco 539 Patagonian Indians 541 The Harbor, Buenos Ayres 542 The City of Buenos Ayres 545 Loading Cargo at Buenos Ayres 548 Going Ashore at Buenos Ayres 549 A Private Residence in Buenos Ayres 552 The Colon Theatre, Buenos Ayres 554
— from The Capitals of Spanish America by William Eleroy Curtis

The bird, a more active producer of heat, whose maintenance is a more delicate matter, covers itself with feathers, which overlap evenly, and puts round its body a thick cushion of air on a bed of down.
— from The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Jean-Henri Fabre