There is also another oil made by insolation in this manner: Take what quantity you will of the flowers, and put them into a strong glass close stopped, tie a fine linen cloth over the mouth, and turn the mouth down into another strong glass, which being set in the sun, an oil will distil down into the lower glass, to be preserved as precious for divers uses, both inward and outward, as a sovereign balm to heal the disease before-mentioned, to clear dim sights, and to take away spots, marks, and scars in the skin.
— 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

The sun rose at length in front of us, bright red on the plane of the horizon, and in proportion as it ascended, growing clearer from minute to minute, the country seemed to awake, to smile, to shake itself like a young girl leaving her bed in her white robe of vapor.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

But I have long thought Mr. Bertram one of the worst subjects to work on, in any little manoeuvre against common sense, that a woman could be plagued with.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

We'd go without the watches, even, if you could sell them and find his wife with the money.”
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

I can conscientiously say that at the present time we are the lawmakers."
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

Thence to the Councell-chamber; where the King and Councell sat till almost eleven o’clock at night, and I forced to walk up and down the gallerys till that time of night.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

We had been, collectively, subject to an intrusion; some unscrupulous traveler, curious in old houses, had made his way in unobserved, enjoyed the prospect from the best point of view, and then stolen out as he came.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

They said again, “And how shall we discern even this?” — “Do you contrive,” said the anchorite, “that he first arrive with his company at the place where the synod is to be held; and if at your approach he rises up to you, hear him submissively, being assured that he is the servant of Christ; but if he despises you, and does not rise up to you, whereas you are more in number, let him also be despised by you.”
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

You can see them, at the foot of the hill.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

," says Miss Celia Fiennes with considerable severity, "they are likewise as careless when they make cider; they press all sorts of Apples together, else they might have as good sider as in any other parts, even as good as the Herriforshire.
— from Lynton and Lynmouth: A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland by John Presland

Hostilities, however, continued some time, and the tribes in various directions exhibited a strange, changeable conduct.
— from Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Goodrich

Item, Auarice is a vice that gerris oft tymes the curage of mony noble Knycht descend full lawe; ffor quhy, the gredynesse of gude blyndis thair hye curage for glytwisnesse of gold and of richesse, that it ourecummys the force that suld vencuss his inymy with, and makis him subject till sa lawly wretchitnesse and vnhonest thing, that is bot for defaut of forss; that suld be his pillare of worschip till hald him ferme; the quhilk pillare faillis him at nede quhen noblesse of hye corage is slokit throu Cuvatise, nocht defendand thame aganis it, as the worthynesse of the Ordre requeris: bot tholis him to be ourecummyn and vencust throu cowardise spirituale, and lachesse of curage souplit throu Auarice; and changit thair curage again the noblesse of the Ordre:
— from The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood Translated from the French by Sir Gilbert Hay, Knight by Ramon Llull

Then he could see too, as he looked upon the light, that there was a glimmer around it; and he saw that it came from the edges and faces of rocks that were lit up by the radiance.
— from Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset by Arthur Christopher Benson

And realizing that he had scarcely spoken to his old chum since they awakened, he asked him many questions about the ranch, and the boys, as they drifted across the mesa and down the trail that led to the Concho.
— from The Ridin' Kid from Powder River by Henry Herbert Knibbs

We don't want to hurt him," he cautioned, slowing the animal down to almost a walk.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in Montana; Or, The Mystery of the Old Custer Trail by Frank Gee Patchin

You can see they are unfit for saddle, but with a little attention can be cured--I'll show you how.
— from Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings by Andy Adams

The Convent school, Toulouse, and his engagement with Quintana had borne fruit of the kind we discover in the book on Trinitarian error; it was the reading-room of the printers of Lyons that brought him back from the empyrean of metaphysics to the earth, and put him in the way of becoming the geographer, astrologian, biblical critic, physiologist and physician we are made familiar with in his subsequent life and writings.
— from Servetus and Calvin A Study of an Important Epoch in the Early History of the Reformation by Robert Willis

But the old soldiers of Sylla were Catiline's chief stimulus to action.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls by Plutarch