Such medicines as are dry in the third degree, being unadvisedly given, hinder the parts of the body they are appropriated to, of their nourishment, and by that means brings them into consumption.
— 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

Preparing for battle, General Jackson sent the brigade under General Early to support Stuart’s cavalry and horse artillery, and Lawton drew his brigade, under General Hays, to support his others on the right of Jackson’s division.
— from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet

The Mounted Infantry and the 2nd Brigade, under General Hamilton, then engaged in the herculean task of getting up the rugged steeps of the Biggarsberg, and there, securing a nek which was the key to the summit, prevented the enemy from attempting to waylay the advancing army.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 5 (of 8) From the Disaster at Koorn Spruit to Lord Roberts's Entry into Pretoria by Louis Creswicke

Among the captives, amid the laughter of the crowds at his blowsy upper garment, his trousered legs and conical wolf-skin cap, walked our own ancestor, representative of subject Germany, under a figure very familiar in later Roman sculpture; and, though certainly with none of the grace of the Dying Gaul, yet with plenty of uncouth pathos in his misshapen features, and the pale, servile, yet angry eyes.
— from Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 by Walter Pater

While we drove them before us, General Heudelet threatened their rear.
— from Memoirs of General Count Rapp, first aide-de-camp to Napoleon by Rapp, Jean, comte

These specimens were white, but upon gently heating them in the flame of a spirit-lamp, they became a deep-red.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

The times were extremely warlike, and Galicia, from her position, and on account of the independent spirit of the noblemen, was called upon to suffer more than any other region, and Tuy, near the ocean, and a frontier town to boot, underwent greater hardships than any other Galician city.
— from The Cathedrals of Northern Spain Their History and Their Architecture; Together with Much of Interest Concerning the Bishops, Rulers and Other Personages Identified with Them by Charles Rudy

As to your hating them, I believe in my soul you hate most people; and women like you, with big, flashing black eyes, are apt to be uncommon good haters, too.
— from The Baronet's Bride; Or, A Woman's Vengeance by May Agnes Fleming

Since Durnovo's plain-spoken threat had been uttered Gordon had thought of little else, and it was well known that Jocelyn's influence was all that prevented him from taking hopelessly to drink.
— from With Edged Tools by Henry Seton Merriman

Those born under Gemini have their marks in the arms.
— from The Influence of the Stars: A book of old world lore by Rosa Baughan