VII, 520 D | Itaque videndum est, ne non satis sit id, quod apud Platonem est in philosophos dictum, quod in veri investigatione versentur quodque ea, quae plerique vehementer expetant, [25] de quibus inter se digladiari soleant, contemnant et pro nihilo putent, propterea iustos esse.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Camerarius saith, That the distilled water thereof being drank, is very effectual against the stone in the reins and bladder; and that the lye that is made of the ashes thereof being drank for some time together, helps splenetic persons.
— 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

Ware goods on hand verfügbares Einkommen discretionary income verfügbares Einkommen disposable income Verfügbarkeit availability verfügen; verkaufen dispose Verfügung disposal Verfügungsgewalt power of disposition Verfügungsgewalt über die
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

The actual process of deglutition is variously enacted.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

When a warlike state grows soft and effeminate, they may be sure of a war, for commonly such states are grown rich in the time of their degenerating; and so the prey inviteth, and their decay in valor encourageth a war.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

History offered a feeble and delusive smile at the sound of the word; evolutionists and ethnologists disputed its very existence; no one knew what to make of it; yet, without the clue, history was a nursery tale.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The drug is very efficacious, but large doses should not be given.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

Of some the distribution is very extensive, while others are totally unknown except within a limited space, such as some solitary isle, "Placed far amid the melancholy main."
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 399, January 1849 by Various

Another like work, also unpublished, with the title Arte cíe In lengua Pinea has the dictionary inscribed Vocabulario en lengua Nevome .
— from Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language Shea's Library of American Linguistics. Volume III. by Buckingham Smith

"Not at all; but in a prince the sense of duty is very early awakened.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

And David is very extravagant already; he has torn such a hole in his jacket!"
— from Lucretia — Volume 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

About noon several companies of Scots and Welsh Fusiliers advanced from different directions in very extended order upon the ditches.
— from The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle

“Why, my goot Master Oldenbuck, you will only laugh at me—But de hand of glory is vary well known in de countries where your worthy progenitors did live—and it is hand cut off from a dead man, as has been hanged for murther, and dried very nice in de shmoke of juniper wood; and if you put a little of what you call yew wid your juniper, it will not be any better—that is, it will not be no worse—then you do take something of de fatsh of de bear, and of de badger, and of de great eber, as you call de grand boar, and of de little sucking child as has not been christened (for dat is very essentials), and you do make a candle, and put it into de hand of glory at de proper hour and minute, with de proper ceremonish, and he who seeksh for treasuresh shall never find none at all.”
— from The Antiquary — Complete by Walter Scott

Gone is life's primal freshness all too soon; For me the dream is vanished ere my time; I feel the heat and weariness of noon, And long in night's cool shadows to recline.
— from Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. by Margaret Fuller