For some of them keep flatterers and parasites in their retinue—an accursed set of wretches, the defilers and pest of youth; others keep mistresses and common prostitutes, wanton and costly; others waste their money in eating; others come to grief through dice and revelling; some even go in for bolder profligacy, being whoremongers and defilers of the marriage bed, 14 who would madly pursue their darling vice if it cost them their lives.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Wormwood, Agnus Castus, Amaranthus, Dill, Rosemary, Columbines, [265] Orrenges, Balaustins, or Pomegranate Flowers, Bettony, Borrage, Bugloss, Marigolds, Woodbine or Honeysuckles, Clove Gilliflowers, Centaury the less, Chamomel, Winter Gilliflowers, Succory, Comfry the greater, Saffron, Blue-bottle great and small, ( Synosbatus , Tragus , and Dedonæus hold our white thorn to be it, Cordus and Marcelus think it to be Bryars, Lugdunensis takes it for the sweet Bryar, but what our College takes it for, I know not) Cytinus, ( Dioscorides calls the flowers of the Manured Pomegranates, Cytinus, but Pliny calls the flowers of the wild kind by that name,) Fox-glove, Vipers Bugloss, Rocket, Eye-bright, Beans, Fumitory, Broom, Cowslips, St. John’s Wort, Hysop, Jessamine or Shrub, Trefoil, Archangel, or Dead Nettles white and red, Lavender, Wall-flowers, or Winter-Gilliflowers, Privet, Lilies white, and of the valley, Hops, Common and tree Mallows, Feather-few, Woodbine, or Honeysuckles, Melilot, Bawm, Walnuts, Water-Lilies white and yellow, Origanum, Poppies white and red, or Erraticks, Poppies, or corn Roses, so called because they grow amongst Corn, Peony, Honeysuckles, or Woodbine, Peach-flowers, Primroses, Self-heal, Sloe bush, Rosemary flowers, Roses, white, damask and red, Sage, Elder, white Saxifrage, Scabious, Siligo, (I think they mean wheat by it, Authors are not agreed about it) Steches, Tamarisk, Tansy, Mullen or Higtaper, Limetree, Clove Gilliflowers, Colt’s-foot, Violets, Agnus Castus, Dead Nettles white and red.
— 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

Quam vero ipsa desideret affectu ramorum significat, et adullam respicit; amantur, &c. 4662 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Without waiting for the blow to be struck, the men from Damme and the surrounding towns, under the leadership of De Coninck and John [Pg 156] Breidel, poured into the city before daybreak and roaring “ Schilt end vriendt ”—a battle-cry and password that no Frenchman could pronounce—they overwhelmed the partisans of the Lily.
— from The Spell of Flanders An Outline of the History, Legends and Art of Belgium's Famous Northern Provinces by Edward Neville Vose

Useless were her days to all: to herself, each day a rising sorrow; each night a setting grief.
— from Pharais; and, The Mountain Lovers by William Sharp

A painful foreboding of suffering filled the minds of the Vaudois as soon as they heard of the revocation of the edict of Nantes; but they were not prepared for the actual severity of the edict of January 30th, 1686, which forbade, under pain of death, all religious services except the Romish, and ordered the destruction of their temples, the banishment of their ministers and schoolmasters, and the baptism and education of their children henceforth in the false creed of Rome.
— from The Vaudois of Piedmont: A Visit to Their Valleys by J. N. (John Napper) Worsfold

3. The size of the writing , &c. And the methodical scribe makes his books of certain definite and regular sizes, each size having corresponding and regular proportions of margins and writing.
— from Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering by Edward Johnston

We have also seen noticed as distinguishable a ridge still exterior to the last mentioned, as Chateaugay, i.e. , the range of the St. Lawrence.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various