The juice dropped into foul ulcers, or they washed therewith, or the decoction of the herb and root, doth wonderfully cleanse and help to cure them.
— 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

Accordingly, the great adventurer, facing his destiny on the height at Rossomme, determined, in a last desperate effort, to retrieve the day, and stake all on a last cast of the dice.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

There were bustards in droves on these heaths, and roe deer to be found easily enough by those who had skill to seek them in the right places.
— from A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

When he opened the sack, the bees and wasps, who were by this time thoroughly furious, swarmed upon him, and stung him till he howled with agony, and, mad with pain, he broke down the door of the hut and rushed down to the river, into which he flung himself head first.
— from Basutoland: Its Legends and Customs by Minnie Martin

The people fight in defence of their homes, and reverses destroy our armies without changing the spirit of the nation.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

[Pg 154] commands the eighty-first foot: and has, by his marriage with a daughter of the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Marsham, an heir to the ancestral honours of the house.
— from Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume II. by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.