The Chinese child-soul is then unable to return into its body until some kind of magical ceremony or exorcism expels the possessing demon; and through precisely similar methods, often aided by Christian priests, Celts cure changelings made by fairies, pixies, and corrigans .
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

( return ) [ Such as George of Trebizond, Theodore Gaza, Argyropulus, Andronicus of Thessalonica, Philelphus, Poggius, Blondus, Nicholas Perrot, Valla, Campanus, Platina, &c. Viri (says Hody, with the pious zeal of a scholar) (nullo ævo perituri, p. 156.)
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

how they cause melancholy Parties affected in religious melancholy Passions and perturbations causes of melancholy; how they work on the body; their divisions; how rectified and eased Passions of lovers Patience a cure of misery Patient, his conditions that would be cured; patience, confidence, liberality, not to practise on himself; what he must do himself; reveal his grief to a friend Pennyroyal good against melancholy Perjury of lovers Persuasion a means to cure love-melancholy; other melancholy Phantasy, what Philippus Bonus, how he used a country fellow Q. Quantity of diet cause; cure of melancholy R. Rational soul Reading Scriptures good against melancholy Recreations good against melancholy Redness of the face helped Regions of the belly Relation or hearing a cause of love-melancholy Religious melancholy a distinct species its object; causes of it; symptoms; prognostics; cure; religious policy, by whom Repentance, its effects Retention and evacuation causes of melancholy; rectified to the cure Rich men's discontents and miseries; their prerogatives Riot in apparel, excess of it, a great cause of love-melancholy Rivers in love Rivals and co-rivals Roots censured Rose cross-men's or Rosicrucian's promises Philosophers censured; their errors Philters cause of love-melancholy; how they cure melancholy Phlebotomy cause of melancholy; how to be used, when, in melancholy; in head melancholy Phlegmatic melancholy signs Phrenzy's description Physician's miseries; his qualities if he be good Physic censured; commended; when to be used Physiognomical signs of melancholy Pictures good against melancholy; cause of love-melancholy Plague's effects Planets inhabited Plays more famous Pleasant palaces and gardens Pleasant objects of love Pleasing tone and voice a cause of love-melancholy Poetical cures of love-melancholy Poets why poor Poetry a symptom of lovers Politician's pranks Poor men's miseries; their happiness; they are dear to God Pope Leo Decimus, his scoffing Pork a melancholy meat Possession of devils Poverty and want causes of melancholy, their effects; no such misery to be poor Power of spirits Predestination misconstrued, a cause of despair Preparatives and purgers for melancholy Precedency, what stirs it causeth Precious stones, metals, altering melancholy Preventions to the cure of jealousy Pride and praise causes of melancholy Priests, how they cause religious melancholy Princes' discontents Prodigals, their miseries; bankrupts and spendthrifts, how punished Profitable objects of love Progress of love-melancholy exemplified Prognostics or events of love-melancholy; of despair; of jealousy; of melancholy Prospect good against melancholy Prosperity a cause of misery Protestations and deceitful promises of lovers Pseudoprophets, their pranks; their symptoms Pulse, peas, beans, cause of melancholy Pulse of melancholy men, how it is affected Pulse a sign of love-melancholy Purgers and preparatives to head melancholy Purging simples upward; downward Purging, how cause of melancholy S. Saints' aid rejected in melancholy Salads censured Sanguine melancholy signs Scholars' miseries Scilla or sea-onion, a purger of melancholy Scipio's continency Scoffs, calumnies, bitter jests, how they cause melancholy; their antidote Scorzonera, good against melancholy Scripture misconstrued, cause of religious melancholy; cure of melancholy Seasick, good physic for melancholy Self-love cause of melancholy, his effects Sensible soul and its parts Senses, why and how deluded in melancholy Sentences selected out of humane authors Servitude cause of melancholy; and imprisonment eased Several men's delights and recreations Severe tutors and guardians causes of melancholy Shame and disgrace how causes of melancholy, their effects Sickness for our good Sighs and tears symptoms of love-melancholy Sight a principal cause of love-melancholy Signs of honest love Similar parts of the body Simples censured proper to melancholy: fit to be known; purging melancholy upward; downward, purging simples Singing a symptom of lovers; cause of love-melancholy Sin the impulsive cause of man's misery Single life and virginity commended; their prerogatives Slavery of lovers Sleep and waking causes of melancholy; by what means procured, helped Small bodies have greatest wits Smelling what Smiling a cause of love-melancholy Sodomy Soldiers most part lascivious Solitariness cause of melancholy; coact, voluntary, how good; sign of melancholy Sorrow its effect; a cause of melancholy; a symptom of melancholy; eased by counsel Soul defined, its faculties; ex traduceations , as some hold Spices how causes of melancholy Spirits and devils, their nature; orders; kinds; power, &c. Spleen its site; how misaffected cause of melancholy Sports Spots in the sun Spruceness a symptom of lovers Stars, how causes or signs of melancholy; of love-melancholy; of jealousy Stepmother, her mischiefs Stews, why allowed Stomach distempered a cause of melancholy Stones like birds, beasts, fishes, &c. Strange nurses, when best Streets narrow Study overmuch cause of melancholy; why and how; study good against melancholy Subterranean devils Supernatural causes of melancholy Superstitious effects, symptoms; how it domineers Surfeiting and drunkenness taxed Suspicion and jealousy symptoms of melancholy; how caused Swallows, cuckoos, &c., where are they in winter Sweet tunes and singing causes of love-melancholy Symptoms or signs of melancholy in the body; mind; from stars, members; from education, custom, continuance of time, mixed with other diseases; symptoms of head melancholy; of hypochondriacal melancholy; of the whole body; symptoms of nuns', maids', widows' melancholy; immediate causes of melancholy symptoms; symptoms of love-melancholy; symptoms of a lover pleased; dejected; Symptoms of jealousy; of religious melancholy; of despair Synteresis Syrups T. Tale of a prebend Tarantula's stinging effects Taste what Temperament a cause of love-melancholy Tempestuous air, dark and fuliginous, how cause of melancholy Terrestrial devils Terrors and affrights cause melancholy Theologasters censured The best cure of love-melancholy is to let them, have their desire Tobacco approved, censured Toleration, religious Torments of love Transmigration of souls Travelling commended, good against melancholy; for love-melancholy especially Tutors cause melancholy U. Uncharitable men described Understanding defined, divided Unfortunate marriages' effects Unkind friends cause melancholy Unlawful cures of melancholy rejected Upstarts censured, their symptoms Urine of melancholy persons Uxorii V. Vainglory described a cause of melancholy Valour and courage caused by love Variation of the compass, where Variety of meats and dishes cause melancholy Variety of mistresses and objects a cure of melancholy Variety of weather, air, manners, countries, whence, &c. Variety of places, change of air, good against melancholy Vegetal soul and its faculties Vegetal creatures in love Veins described Venus rectified Venery a cause of melancholy Venison a melancholy meat Vices of women Violent misery continues not Violent death, event of love-melancholy; prognostic of despair; by some defended; how to be censured Virginity, by what signs to be known; commended Virtue and vice, principal habits of the will Vitex or agnus castus good against love-melancholy W. Waking cause of melancholy; a symptom; cured Walking, shooting, swimming, &c. good against melancholy Preface | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Notes 4414 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

‘Don’t talk of lending money, Mrs. Nickleby,’ said Miss Knag, ‘or you’ll drive me crazy, perfectly crazy.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

For Butler seems to regard it as one of two superior and naturally authoritative impulses, the other being Conscience: nay, in a passage before quoted, he even concedes that it would be reasonable for Conscience to yield to it, if the two could possibly conflict.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Cortesye , sb. courtesy, PP; curteysy , S2; curteisie , S2, C2, C3.—AF. curteisie .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

He was finally destroyed by a combination against him while the Khan was absent with Crown Prince Chen Chin, on a visit to Shang Tu."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

clean, pure, chaste, sober, abstinent, temperate , Æ. [ Ger. sauber] syftan = siftan syge I. m. sight, aspect, view , FT 64?
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

It is possible that through negligence, or ignorance, or design artfully conducted, ministers may suffer one part of government to languish, another to be perverted from its purposes, and every valuable interest of the country to fall into ruin and decay, without possibility of fixing any single act on which a criminal prosecution can be justly grounded.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

$104.2 billion (31 December 2006) Agriculture - products: grain, potatoes, tomatoes, olives, grapes; sheep, cattle, goats, swine, poultry, dairy products; fish Industries: textiles, clothing, footwear, wood and cork, paper, chemicals, auto-parts manufacturing, base metals, diary products, wine and other foods, porcelain and ceramics, glassware, technology, telecommunications; ship construction and refurbishment; tourism Industrial production growth rate: -2.2% (2008 est.)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Catherine's warm heart glowed with affection for all who were good to her, but more especially for those to whom she felt drawn by the tie of sympathy; and she could not believe that a brother could possibly continue to refuse to clasp a brother's hand, nor that any one could long withstand the gentle fascination of Uncle Jack's sincerity.
— from Niece Catherine by Mary Hampden

Chocolate Pound Cake 1 cup butter 1 cup sugar 5 egg yolks 5 egg whites ½ teaspoon salt ¼ cup Lowney’s Premium Chocolate, grated 2 cups flour ¼ cup brandy 1 cup citron cut in small pieces Cream butter; add sugar gradually, yolks of eggs beaten until thick and lemon-colored, flour, citron, salt.
— from Lowney's Cook Book Illustrated in Colors by Maria Willett Howard

"There is not much difference in the method of handling goats in the pasture from sheep, but goats have this characteristic, that they prefer the mountain woodland pastures to meadows, for they feed eagerly on the brushwood and in cultivated places crop the shrubbery; indeed, their name caprae is derived from carpere , to crop.
— from Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Marcus Porcius Cato

The instrument is then pointed to a spot, so that its image falls on the slit, and the presence of the dark central part called the umbra reveals itself by a darkish stripe which traverses the ordinary sun-spectrum from end to end.
— from The Story of the Heavens by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

[12] King Charles the Eleventh, on his visit to Tornea in 1694, was accompanied by Count G. Douglas the Lord Lieutenant, Count Piper Counsellor of Chancery, J. Hoghusen Counsellor of the Board of War, and some other learned men, and in the night between the 13th and 14th of June saw, from the belfry of the church, the midnight sun, at that time visible there to a person placed on such an elevation.
— from Lachesis Lapponica; Or, A Tour in Lapland, Volume 2 by Carl von Linné

The Spirit enlargeth the prisoner's heart, and then he runs, but not at random, but the way of his commands, Psalm cxix.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

Many methods have been devised for the preparation of the amines, the first amine having been isolated in 1849 by A. Wurtz on boiling methyl isocyanate with caustic potash, CON.CH3 + 2KHO = CH3NH2 + K2CO3.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

English readers may know something, from Kingsley's Hypatia , of the excellent bishop of Ptolemais who, at the meeting of the fourth and fifth centuries, combined the functions of neo-Platonist philosopher, Christian prelate, country gentleman, and most efficient yeomanry officer against the ancestors, or at least forerunners, of the present Senussi, who were constantly raiding his diocese and its neighbourhood.
— from A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by George Saintsbury