Then, selecting a little side gallery, I made my essay.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

A water distilled from the root simply, as steeped in wine, and distilled in a glass, is much more effectual than the water of the leaves; and this water, drank two or three spoonfuls at a time, easeth all pains and torments coming of cold and wind, so that the body be not bound; and taken with some of the root in powder at the beginning, helpeth the pleurisy, as also all other diseases of the lungs and breast, as coughs, phthysic, and shortness of breath; and a syrup of the stalks do the like.
— 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

God be praised I have a soul in my body still, and all my teeth and grinders in my mouth, except one or two that the colds, so common in this Aragon country, have robbed me of.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Your uncle, young gentleman, is my most especial friend; and there is not a worthier man breathing.
— from The Cruise of the Midge (Vol. 2 of 2) by Michael Scott

That you may know and realize this truth, and learn to find for yourself the comfort and support and strength of soul that comes from seeking after God, is my most earnest hope and prayer for you.
— from Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls by Helen Ekin Starrett

As you approach, each gate is more magnificent, each courtyard larger, each hall loftier, all combining to add grandeur to the ceremony.
— from Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod by Péter Vay

I seem to be not so much thinking things out as reviving and developing things I've had growing in my mind ever since we met.
— from Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

If we might assume that the Columbkille group belongs to a time immediately preceding their conversion, and that the other five groups in Malin More extended back to a date two, three, it may be four centuries before St. Columba's time, and that they belonged to an Iberian or Celtiberian race, we should have an hypothesis which at least would account for all their peculiarities.
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson

Never will we affirm there's more of joy Than grief in marriage; making estimate Both from old sorrows anciently observed,
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

This thought has been growing in my mind ever since the silver wedding of two dear friends: that quarter of a century has been but a prolonged courtship.
— from Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life by Vernon Lee

the dinner-table I get in my most effective strokes.
— from Dear Enemy by Jean Webster

When, therefore, I talk of anything I get as ‘my own good,’ I must mean either that the thing I get is good, or that my possessing it is good.
— from Principia Ethica by G. E. (George Edward) Moore