Matthiolus commends the same to be put into hollow ulcers to heal them up, and it is good for chops in the hands and feet, and to make rugged skin smooth.
— 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

I know there is no mathematician, who will not refuse to be judged by the diagrams he describes upon paper, these being loose draughts, as he will tell us, and serving only to convey with greater facility certain ideas, which are the true foundation of all our reasoning.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

I cannot tell you what a good friend Cannabich is—so busy and active!
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The general and Totski exchanged looks; Gania fidgeted convulsively in his chair.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[In answer to an appealing gesture from COKESON] I'm sorry; I'd stop short of this if I felt I could.
— from Justice by John Galsworthy

Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"They pretend," as I hear, "that the verses of Kabir have four different senses; illusion, spirit, intellect, and the exoteric doctrine of the Vedas"; but in this part of the world it is considered a ground for complaint if a man's writings admit of more than one interpretation.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

it is either actually impossible, or a task of no mean difficulty, to alter by words what has been of old taken into men’s very dispositions: and, it may be, it is a ground for contentment if with all the means and appliances for goodness in our hands we can attain to Virtue.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

It has eyes of green felspar cemented in with resin.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

"The last abbot," says Murray, "was hanged at his own gate for contumacy in refusing to acknowledge [Pg 197] the Royal Supremacy."
— from Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by James Edmund Vincent

Hutten expresses his "hopes of good" from Charles in Vadiscus (Böcking, IV, 156).
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther

His greatest feat consisted in breaking squarely in two, by pushing with his head, a 90-pound steel railroad iron used as the top bar of his fence.
— from The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observations by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

Belarus felt the effects of the global financial crisis in late 2008 and reached agreement with Russia in November for a $2 billion stabilization loan and with the IMF for a $2.5 billion stand-by agreement in January 2009.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Tim Jones’n me Will give fifty cents in change To whom will write this story up And read it in the Grange!”
— from Poems by Clara A. Merrill

In course of time, the dirt all seeps through between the interstices of the logs, and the latter arrange themselves in positions more picturesque than comfortable; which, being ridden over in a springless wagon at a good fast clip, is a more energetic "bump the bumps" than any amusement park has thought of inflicting on a suffering public.
— from The Boy With the U. S. Survey by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

The substitution of “gangrene” for “cancer” is an improvement, as giving the exact word used in the original, which expresses the meaning more forcibly than “cancer.”
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Pastoral Epistles by Alfred Plummer

From the good fellow Casimir I learned that a certain dancer appearing at one of our Montmartre theatres had written to the Grand Duke craving the honour of his autograph—and enclosing her photograph.
— from The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer

A questionnaire was sent out containing the following questions: (1) How would your syndicat act in order to transform itself from a group for combat into a group for production?
— from Syndicalism in France by Lewis L. (Lewis Levitzki) Lorwin