Privet hath a binding quality, helps ulcers in the mouth, is good against burnings and scaldings, cherishes the nerves and sinews; boil it in white wine to wash the mouth, and in hog’s grease for burnings and scaldings.
— 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

This brand she quenched in a cool well by, Which from Love’s fire took heat perpetual, Growing a bath and healthful remedy, For men discased, but I my mistress’ thrall, Came there for cure and this by that I prove, Love’s fire heats water, water cools not love.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Note 8 ( return ) [ Dr. Hudson takes notice here, that this kind of brass or copper, or rather mixture of gold and brass or copper, was called aurichalcum, and that this was of old esteemed the most precious of all metals.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

1. About the year 100 B.C. the Romans were greatly alarmed by an invasion of barbarians from the north known as Cimbri and Teutons.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Nature has no feeling; the sun gives his light to good and bad alike, and moon and stars shine out for the worst of men as for the best.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Note, however: (1) that good and bad are never adverbs; (2) that ill and well , better and best , worse and worst , may be either adverbs or adjectives.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

When men see groups and backgrounds they are natural painters.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

“I cannot tell; Aunt Reed says if I have any, they must be a beggarly set: I should not like to go a begging.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Adieu to Paris.—Its Scenes.—The Procession of the Fat Ox.—Destitution of the Poorer Classes.—Need of a Reform.—The Doctrines of Fourier making Progress.—Review of Fourier's Life and Character.—The Parisian Press on the Spanish Marriage.—Guizot's Policy.—Napoleon.—The Manuscripts of Rousseau in the Chamber of Deputies.—His Character.—Speech of M. Berryer in the Chamber.—American and French Oratory.—The Affair of Cracow.—Dull Speakers in the Chamber.—French Vivacity.—Amusing Scene.—Guizot speaking.—International Exchange of Books.—The Evening School of the Frères Chretiens .—The Great Good accomplished by them.—Suggestions for the like in America.—The Institution of the Deaconesses.—The New York "Home."—School for Idiots near Paris.—The Reclamation of Idiots.
— from At Home And Abroad; Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Margaret Fuller

They next ran to Exeter House, then newly erected, fired the gates, and burnt all the plate, jewels, money, and goods.
— from Haunted London by Walter Thornbury

he demanded gently as Bryce came up the low steps.
— from The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

“In Virginia I spent a gay and busy year, and came off very well with the rough but gentlemanly cavaliers, who rode through the wide, sandy streets of the capital on excellent horses, or in English coaches, with a rusty sort of show and splendour, but always with great gallantry.
— from The Seats of the Mighty, Complete by Gilbert Parker

He had more, far more, than many of those girls and boys at home.
— from Command by William McFee

The Lord authorized the Apostles and others, by direct revelation, and by the spirit of prophecy, to preach and baptize, and build up His church and kingdom; but after awhile they died, and a long time passed away; men reading over their commission, where it says to the eleven Apostles, 'Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature,' etc., have had the presumption to apply these sayings as their authority, and, without any other commission, have gone forth professing to preach the gospel, and baptize, and build up the church and kingdom of God; but those whom they baptize never receive the same blessings and gifts which characterized a Saint, or citizen of the kingdom, in the days of the Apostles.
— from Mr. Durant of Salt Lake City, "That Mormon" by Ben. E. (Benjamin Erastus) Rich

Much was burnt to tinder and ash; much more was simply killed and scorched, and stood or hung in an infinite tangle of lianes and boughs, all gray and bare.
— from At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies by Charles Kingsley

There are table games and packets of tobacco, writing pads and boxes of cigarettes, cheap fountain pens which will nearly turn the Matron's hair grey, and bags of chocolates.
— from Mud and Khaki: Sketches from Flanders and France by Vernon Bartlett

Regina opened the elegant grand piano, but forbore to touch the keys, and at last when she had feasted her eyes sufficiently upon some lovely landscapes by Gifford and Bierstadt, she quitted the richly decorated parlours, and slowly went up the stairs that led to the room which Hattie had pointed out as Mr. Palma's library.
— from Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans