They purge very gently, but strengthen much, both head, brain, eyes, belly, and reins.
— 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

But if it does not recognize it until a right is acquired, then the protection of a disseisor in the use of an easement must still be explained by a reference to the facts mentioned in the Lecture referred to.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

It appears to be established, beyond any reasonable doubt, that he was killed (while he was asleep, or immediately on his waking) by being smothered with a pillow from his bed—that the persons guilty of murdering him are the three Indians—and that the object contemplated (and achieved) by the crime, was to obtain possession of the diamond, called the Moonstone.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Emily, overcome by these recollections, left the plane-tree, and, as she leaned pensively on the wall of the terrace, she observed a group of peasants dancing gaily on the banks of the Garonne, which spread in broad expanse below, and reflected the evening light.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Who knows, if she had been embraced by a rich student or an officer the consequences might have been different.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The inconsistency and recklessness of Traddles were not to be exceeded by any real politician.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

" "I will not oppose such kind politeness; but I should be sorry to be examined by a real proficient.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

What record, or what relic of my lord Should be to aftertime, but empty breath And rumours of a doubt?
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The face is oval, with a coarse, lustful expression, the hair rough, wavy, and black, eyes bright and remarkably strong; women pretty, with large eyes, and small feet and ankles.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Collins and Gray were dead; Mason had hung up the lyre; and Thomas Warton was then thought too laboured and quaint; Hayley had succeeded beyond expectation by a return to lxvi moral and didactic poetry at a moment when the public was satiated by vile imitations of lyrical and descriptive composition; but Cowper gave a new impulse to the curiosity of poetical readers, by a natural train of thought and the unlaboured effusions of genuine feeling.
— from The Poetical Works of William Collins; With a Memoir by William Collins

Where bandages are uncomfortably tight the subject will manifest discomfort, and an attendant should observe the animal at intervals for a few hours (where there may be some doubt as to the degree of pressure which is exerted by elastic bandages) and readjustment made before any harm is done.
— from Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix

Twelve thousand have been sent here to Brittany, escorted by American Red Cross doctors and American nurses, and their school-masters and mistresses.
— from War Days in Brittany by Elsie Deming Jarves

This could best be effected by a return dinner to the Hendersons.
— from The Golden House by Charles Dudley Warner

That on the German left two French Divisions had retired before a few newly-arrived battalions, and had evacuated the Tronville copses, can only be explained by a report having reached Bazaine's head-quarters that the enemy was coming in upon his right flank in the vicinity of Hannonville.
— from The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Moltke, Helmuth, Graf von

It was an eerie run that—with the snarling cascade of the reef on one side, the ghostly dance of the rollers on the other, and the impenetrable grey curtain of the mist blanking everything beyond a radius of a hundred feet; but Imshallah went through it with her head in the air and came waltzing out into the swirls below as cocky as a partridge.
— from Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

The playwrights could always secure an audience by a skilful portrait of an "English Mounsieur" such as Sir Fopling Flutter, who "went to Paris a plain bashful English Blockhead and returned a fine undertaking French Fop."
— from English Travellers of the Renaissance by Clare Howard

Schulman of Amersfoort had my commission in the sale of the local find a year or so since to obtain for me a gold zecchino of Ercole I., Duke of Ferrara, which the aforesaid averred to be ‘ d’une beauté excessive ;’ but a representative of the British Museum attended in person, and bought it over me.
— from The Confessions of a Collector by William Carew Hazlitt