[ 135 ] Lépine and Boileau used it experimentally to treat leprosy and reported favorably; but later experience demonstrated that it did not exercise any specific effect, but benefited anæsthetic leprosy simply by improving the general condition of the patient.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Pryor informs me that the Cause of his building two Canoes was for fear of ones meating with Some accedent in passing down the rochejhone a river entirely unknown to either of them by which means they might loose their guns and amunition and be left entirely destitute of the means of precureing food.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

1112b] Again, we do not deliberate respecting such arts or sciences as are exact and independent: as, for instance, about written characters, because we have no doubt how they should be formed; but we do deliberate on all buch things as are usually done through our own instrumentality, but not invariably in the same way; as, for instance, about matters connected with the healing art, or with money-making; and, again, more about piloting ships than gymnastic exercises, because the former has been less exactly determined, and so forth; and more about arts than sciences, because we more frequently doubt respecting the former.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

The howl of anger against Gladstone became louder every day, for every one knew that the Cabinet was called for October 23, and then could not fail to decide its policy about the United States.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

And it will become as the heart of the earth, lost and hidden at first, but beating, beating louder each day.
— from Anthem by Ayn Rand

If I stay here and fight, I shall not return alive but my name will live for ever: whereas if I go home my name will die, but it will be long ere death shall take me.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Then, little by little, each day, the boy began to shorten the length of rope which allowed the horse to graze.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The narrow streets of the place are deserted by this time, but they have been lively enough during the day with the busy leather-dealers and their teams; for this is the great hide and leather mart of the city, as any one might guess even now in the gloom by the pungent odors that arise on every side.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

Johann Carl Schauer, Johann Sebastian Bachs Lebensbild: Eine Denkschrift auf seinen 100jähringen Todestag.
— from Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work by Johann Nikolaus Forkel

3. Application of Test : Patient sitting, with head thrown back Lower eyelid drawn slightly down and toward the nose—to form a small pouch of the lid; One drop of 1% or 1 ⁄ 2 % instilled in that pouch and the lower lid moved up gently over the eye until the lids meet; Eye kept closed for one minute or so.
— from Nurses' Papers on Tuberculosis : read before the Nurses' Study Circle of the Dispensary Department, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium by Chicago (Ill.). Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. Dispensary Department

I think the important thing is that the people should be able to use the power that's coming to them in bigger lumps every day.
— from Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie

It, too, is a tree-climber, and may be seen lying coiled up on a low, thick branch or decayed stump, or sometimes on the bare ground, apparently selecting spots where it can be least easily distinguished.
— from The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston

Hence Fenton, in his epistle to Lambard: "By long experience, Durfey may, no doubt, Ensnare a gudgeon, or sometimes a trout; Yet Dryden once exclaimed in partial spite, 'He fish !'
— from Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 1 (of 2) by William Howitt

[ 40 ] Speaking of Trade Unions, he sums up--"In fact the executive committees of all the chief Unions are to a very large extent hostile to strikes, and exercise a restraining influence"--a judgment the truth of which has been largely exemplified during the last two or three years.
— from Problems of Poverty: An Inquiry into the Industrial Condition of the Poor by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson