[4291] I saw (saith he) a melancholy man at Rome, that by no remedies could be healed, but when by chance he was wounded in the head, and the skull broken, he was excellently cured.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

One day she showed him a Miraculous Medal, and related its origin.
— from The Miraculous Medal: Its Origin, History, Circulation, Results by Jean Marie Aladel

And he told me what grief my disobedience had caused him and my mistress, and read me a long sermon on the sinfulness of my course.
— from Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Talbot Baines Reed

A new glory had shone into my life for a short hour and made me all resplendent with its gold—but the light had gone out and the darkness hung like a pall about my soul.
— from In Search of Mademoiselle by George Gibbs

I see you, you are present to me, I think and think again of everything; my head and my mind are racked; but I turn in vain, I seek in vain; the dear child whom I love with so much passion is two hundred leagues away.
— from The Women of the French Salons by Amelia Gere Mason

He said he would see his attorney, George O. Robinson, a well-known lawyer of Bloomington, and after so doing he accepted my money and released the mortgage.
— from With the Rank and File by Thomas J. Ford

Now, as London, the city I was going to, happened to be the capital of Anna Maria County, my boy, I made up my mind that the sacred soil had as many metropolises as railways.
— from The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

On that particular Saint Monday I took, not as I had intended, a Railway Excursion to Rural Parts, but, telling MARY—to her manifest concern—that I Had Altered my Mind as regarded our Holiday, I betook myself to the "Blue Boar" at the corner, and passed the day in Safety—and Solitary Smoking!
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 1, 1891 by Various

Zinc and some other metals can be burned in the air if heated very hot, and most metals are rapidly consumed in the flame of the oxyhydrogen blow-pipe.
— from Harper's Young People, September 14, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

She had, after much misgiving and reluctance, made up her mind to approach her distant relative with the mortgage proposition, but to discuss that proposition with strangers was, to her mind, very different.
— from Thankful's Inheritance by Joseph Crosby Lincoln