The Wild Poppy, or Corn Rose (as Matthiolus saith) is good to prevent the falling-sickness.
— 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

still thy own, the heavy cannon roll, And metaphysic smokes involve the pole.
— from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Alexander Pope

The national guards are wavering and undecided, and this moment (five in the morning) our coachman has knocked at our door to tell us that we cannot remain another moment safe in the town.
— from Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. by Patrick Fraser Tytler

Dogs live with man as courtiers round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice and enriched with sinecures.
— from Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson Selected and Edited With an Introduction and Notes by William Lyon Phelps by Robert Louis Stevenson

Fordun, in the fourteenth century, calls him "that most celebrated robber;" and Major says, "I disapprove of the rapine of the man, but he was the most humane, and prince of all robbers.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832 by Various

A cloudy sky, a dull cold rain, and muddy streets, I was prepared for, but not for this: and I confess to having gone to bed, that night, in a very indifferent humour, and with a very considerably quenched enthusiasm.
— from Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens

The office of worship must be viewed as a means of instruction as well as a rite contrived as the promoter and expression of religious emotion; the believer is in no wise to be considered as having attained to complete ripeness and maturity, since if it were so religious worship would be unnecessary.
— from Music in the History of the Western Church With an Introduction on Religious Music Among Primitive and Ancient Peoples by Edward Dickinson

The plan met with favor, and on coming together this year it was found that nearly every church reported a missionary society in some form.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 11, November, 1889 by Various

He could read a mysterious something in her glance, and it was as though she had said, “Ah, there you are, from away beyond the beginning of time!”
— from The Ship of Coral by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole