This grows with three or four large, spread winged, rough leaves, lying often on the ground, or else raised a little from it, with long, round, hairy foot-stalks under them, parted usually into five divisions, the two couples standing each against the other; and one at the end, and each leaf, being almost round, yet somewhat deeply cut in on the edges in some leaves, and not so deep in others, of a whitish green colour, smelling somewhat strongly; among which rises up a round, crusted, hairy stalk, two or three feet high, with a few joints and leaves thereon, and branched at the top, where stand large umbels of white, and sometimes reddish flowers, and after them flat, whitish, thin, winged seed, two always joined together.
— 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

SYN: Protection, shelter, harbor, asylum, retreat, covert, hospitality, sanctuary, hiding-place.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

She had not been there on the preceding evening, and she had already retired to her chamber when Toussaint had said: “It appears that there is a row.” Cosette had slept only a few hours, but soundly.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

‘No matter: you shall answer my question!’ exclaimed her tormentor; and he attempted to extort the confession by shaking her, and remorselessly crushing her slight arms in the gripe of his powerful fingers.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

If I had reasoned with him like a rational creature, he says, it never would have happened; but to be treated like a baby or a fool was enough to put any man past his patience, and drive him to assert his independence even at the sacrifice of his own interest.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

And as soon as Raymond could, he separated from William and went away to his wife, and related to her all that he had seen of William and her sister, for which his wife was sorely grieved all night.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Mr. Pontellier had been a rather courteous husband so long as he met a certain tacit submissiveness in his wife.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

'A rich city,' he said.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

After having looked for a long time at all the pictures very attentively, he took his dog Sancho upon his knee, and showed him the pictures, with as much gravity as if the animal really could have shared in his pleasure.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

He looked ten years younger, and if any of his adoring readers could have seen the pranks he was up to that morning in our staid and respectable chambers, I am afraid they would no longer have spoken of him “with ‘bated breath and whispering humbleness.”
— from Derrick Vaughan, Novelist by Edna Lyall

When he looked up, the last hat had disappeared, but, nothing daunted, he set off again at a run, carrying his shoes and stockings in his hands, and ere long caught sight of the nodding hats at a turn of the tortuous road.
— from The Making of William Edwards; or, The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, G. Linnaeus (George Linnaeus), Mrs.

But what man can sing or boast when a rope chokes his speech in his throat?"
— from The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

“All right, Chief,” he said.
— from Whispering Wires by Henry Leverage

Of late years a rival concern has sprung up.
— from Olympian Nights by John Kendrick Bangs

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St. Hilary, who had withdrawn from Seleucia to Constantinople, presented to the emperor a request, called his second book to Constantius, begging the liberty of holding a public disputation about religion with {145} Saturninus, the author of his banishment.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

“S,” said the philosopher, like a child getting his lesson in the primer—“S, T, A, R, C, H,— Starch!
— from The Antiquary — Complete by Walter Scott

A recent case has served to test the application of its IVth Article, which provides that neither party shall be bound to deliver up its own citizens, but that the executive authority of each shall have the power to deliver them up if in its discretion it be deemed proper to do so.
— from A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents by William McKinley