Take of Scabious, Burnet, Dragons, Bawm, Angelica, Pimpernel, with purple flowers, Tormentil, roots and all, of each two handfuls, let all of them, being rightly gathered and prepared, be steeped in four gallons of Canary Wine, still off three gallons in an alembick, to which add three ounces of each of the cordial flowers, Clove-gilliflowers six ounces, Saffron half an ounce, Turmerick two ounces, Galanga, Bazil seeds, of each one dram, Citron pills one ounce, the seed of Citrons and Carduus, Cloves of each five ounces, Hart’s-horn four ounces, steep them twenty four hours and then distil them in Balneo Mariæ : to the distilled water add Pearls prepared, an ounce and a half, red Coral, Crabs eyes, white Amber, of each two drams, Crabs claws, six drams, Bezoar, Ambergrease, of each two scruples, steep them six weeks in the sun, in a vessel well stopped, often shaking it, then filter it, (you may keep the powders for Spicord.
— 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

“ Was I an absolute prince,” he would say, pulling up his breeches with both his hands, as he rose from his arm-chair, “ I would appoint able judges, at every avenue of my metropolis, who should take cognizance of every fool’s business who came there;—and if, upon a fair and candid hearing, it appeared not of weight sufficient to leave his own home, and come up, bag and baggage, with his wife and children, farmer’s sons, &c. &c. at his backside, 83 “ they should be all sent back, from constable to constable, like vagrants as they were, to the place of their legal settlements.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

These two striking figures, Christian and Mr. Badman, belong among the great characters of English fiction.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

At the same time, as I have stated, there was not a man on board who would not have pitched the rum to the dogs, (I have heard them say so, a dozen times) for a pot of coffee or chocolate; or even for our common beverage—"water bewitched, and tea begrudged," as it was.[1]
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

In Turkey it denotes an arbitrary governor, with power of perpetual imprisonment; in Italy it gives the husband the power of poison and padlocks; in the countries of England, France, and Holland, it has a quite different meaning, implying a free and equal government, securing to the wife in certain cases the liberty of change, and the property of pin-money and separate maintenance.
— from The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot

It was further found that this general law is, from the necessity of the case, realized both within the mind and without it; that it is, must be, the form of thought for the perceiving subject, corresponding to the condition of existence for the perceived object.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

In the Comedy of Errors , for example, it is only 0.6.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

A man conscious of enthusiasm for worthy aims is sustained under petty hostilities by the memory of great workers who had to fight their way not without wounds, and who hover in his mind as patron saints, invisibly helping.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The custom of eating fish after trembling has a magical importance.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The morning raw and cold, the floor saturated with water, and covered with cases of exploded fireworks; the school-room in horrible confusion, scarcely a pane of glass unshattered—the walls blackened, the books torn—and then the masters and ushers stole in, looking both suspicious and discomfited.
— from Rattlin the Reefer by Edward Howard

They usually have a great hall in the centre of each floor, into which the various rooms open; and the windows of these halls are generally the most important in the elevation.
— from Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages: Notes of Tours in the North of Italy by George Edmund Street

Whether or not this was caused by the discovery of the Pandects of Amalfi, the ardor with which it came, by the middle of the twelfth century, to be studied in all the great centres of learning is incontestable, and men found, to their surprise, that there was a system of jurisprudence of wonderful symmetry and subtle adjustment of right, immeasurably superior to the clumsy and confused canon law and the barbarous feudal customs, while drawing its authority from immutable justice as represented {59} by the sovereign, and not from canon or decretal, from pope or council, or even from Holy Writ.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

In fact, the amount of preferred stock has been reduced, as has the annual charge on earnings for bond interest and preferred stock dividends.
— from United States Steel: A Corporation with a Soul by Arundel Cotter

7. {25} Wet flies tied by the author (actual size) {26} Two thirds actual size DRY FLIES {27} Start winding waxed tying silk (See Diagram 5, page 28) (A) about 1/8" from the eye of the hook, take three or four turns towards the bend of the hook and cut off end, Fig.
— from How to Tie Flies by Ellery Clark Gregg

Blood-letting, in any case of eruptive fever, and with few exceptions in almost every other case, appears to me like pulling down the house to extinguish the fire.
— from Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms by Charles Munde

Then, pitching on a note which brought the tune well within the compass of even Fenton’s growling bass, he began the school songs, “Adsis musa canentibus Laeta voce canentibus Longos clara per annos Haileyburia floreat.” House feeling, local patriotism to the tune of “The Maiden of Bashful Fifteen,” was well enough.
— from Priscilla's Spies by George A. Birmingham

nations of Europe, than this, their successful resistance to those fierce invaders, who overran without difficulty the coasts of England, France, Apulia, and Sicily: conquerors everywhere page 42 p.
— from A Supplementary Chapter to the Bible in Spain by George Borrow

And how shall we say that they participated in it equally with those who through it are truly and fully blessed, resting in a true certainty of eternal felicity?
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo