And for your green wound,—your Balsamum and your St. John's wort, are all mere gulleries and trash to it, especially your Trinidado: your Nicotian is good too.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

The lady, hearing him, came, all weak and anguishful as she was for the grievous annoy she had suffered, overagainst the trap-door and seating herself there, began, weeping, to say, 'Indeed, Rinieri, thou hast beyond measure avenged thyself, for, if I made thee freeze in my courtyard by night, thou hast made me roast, nay burn, on this tower by day and die of hunger and thirst to boot; wherefore I pray thee by the One only God that thou come up hither and since my heart suffereth me not give myself death with mine own hands, give it me thou, for that I desire it more than aught else, such and so great are the torments I endure.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

the cold and sober temperament of the Germans and their tranquil imagination enable them to combine the most daring opinions with the most servile conduct.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

and Gravina, (p. 87—90.) ——Note: Gaius asserts that the Imperial edict or rescript has and always had, the force of law, because the Imperial authority rests upon law.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Members of firms who were not on the floor gathered about the tickers in excited groups and watched the pyrotechnic fluctuations of Sugar to the exclusion of all other stocks.
— from Frenzied Finance, Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Thomas William Lawson

Let us assume that the creature is produced anew at each instant; let us grant also that the instant excludes all priority of time, being indivisible; but let us point out that it does not exclude priority of nature, or what is called anteriority in signo rationis, and that this is sufficient.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

The steep street leads the traveller up to a great arched gateway, and through this is entered a large oblong court.
— from India Impressions, With some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7. by Walter Crane

The pretext that a railroad across the Reservation will greatly aid the tourist is erroneous.
— from The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive by Hiram Martin Chittenden

Gardening, by postponing the results of labour, exciting hope, and by its daily advances, encouraging to perseverance, will tend to produce a most beneficial moral effect; and will greatly assist the teacher in establishing and strengthening some of those valuable checks upon the volatility of the young mind, which are exceedingly necessary for the proper conduct of life, but which there is usually but small opportunity of cultivating in youth.
— from A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education by James Gall

“Don’t give your life to it; but give a thought to it every now and then.”
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 by Henry James

And for your green wound, your Balsamum, and your — are all mere gulleries, and trash to it, especially your Trinidado: your Nicotian is good too: I could say what I know of the virtue of it, for the exposing of rheums, raw humours, crudities, obstructions, with a thousand of this kind; but I profess myself no quack-salver.
— from Every Man in His Humour by Ben Jonson

I had endeavoured to show in 1874, in the first chapter of my "Anthropogenie" (English translation; "The Evolution of Man", 2 volumes, London, 1879 and 1905.), that this fundamental law of organic evolution holds good generally, and that there is everywhere a direct causal connection between ontogeny and phylogeny.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward