At the present time the Japanese are trying to stir up anti-foreign feeling and make the Chinese believe the Americans and English are responsible for China not getting Shantung back, and also talking race discrimination for the same purpose.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

Earth-worms, are an admirable remedy for cut nerves being applied to the place; they provoke urine; see the oil of them, only let me not forget one notable thing quoted by Mizaldus , which is, That the powder of them put into an hollow tooth, makes it drop out .
— 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

A real Frenchman could not, should not rest, until the seas are free and open to all.
— from Military Career of Napoleon the Great An Account of the Remarkable Campaigns of the "Man of Destiny"; Authentic Anecdotes of the Battlefield as Told by the Famous Marshals and Generals of the First Empire by Montgomery B. Gibbs

This latter visitor is of athletic frame, and remarkably forbidding countenance, none the less so from an originally snub nose having been smashed into a sort of plaster over the adjoining territory.
— from General Bounce; Or, The Lady and the Locusts by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville

To this we may add the destruction of farming utensils and implements of husbandry, over and above what occurs in the hands of white laborers; and also the injury inflicted on horses, mules and oxen; the loss of stock for the want of proper attention, regular feeding, &c. None can comprehend the force of my remarks so well, as the practical farmer.
— from A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, An Essay on Slavery by A. Woodward

Familiar as our Bretons were with supernatural ideas, they shivered at it all, and welcomed an attack as a relief from continual nightmare.
— from Dixmude: The epic of the French marines (October 17-November 10, 1914) by Charles Le Goffic

He had been kind to babies in his boyish days, when, book in hand, and the desire for study upon him, he would sit with one foot on the rocker of a rude frontier cradle, not too selfishly busy to keep its small occupant lulled and content, while its mother went about her household tasks.
— from The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay

'Mr. Gateward is a raven for croaking; not that I ever saw one, but it sounds well,' replied the girl.
— from The Crooked Stick; Or, Pollie's Probation by Rolf Boldrewood

The time necessary for going to and returning from Congress not being defined, it will of course be judged of in every particular case by those who will have to decide the case.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 9 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson