The decoction, or distilled water, is no less effectual to be applied to all wounds that are fresh and green, or old, filthy, fretting, and running ulcers, which it very effectually cures in a short space.
— 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

To some too, if they be far gone, mimical gestures are too familiar, laughing, grinning, fleering, murmuring, talking to themselves, with strange mouths and faces, inarticulate voices, exclamations, &c.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“'This is very extraordinary conduct, Mr. Latimer,' I stammered.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

I' vidi Eletra con molti compagni, tra ' quai conobbi Ettor ed Enea, Cesare armato con li occhi grifagni.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The dotted lines extended still further indicate the limits upon which a composer may rely in very exceptional cases, as every full chorus must contain a few -143- voices of more than average compass, in this respect approaching the solo voice in character.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

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— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In the year 1783 I visited eight counties in Wales, from motives of curiosity.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

No one speaks of her now, although she is living in very easy circumstances; but she is fifty-six, and in Paris a woman of that age is no longer considered as being among the living.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And hence we find several of the Saviors in very early childhood displaying great physical prowess in meeting and conquering danger, while others exhibit their superiority mentally by vanquishing their opponents in argument.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

For as it has never yet come into vogue, experience can say nothing of its results; one can only ask for proofs of the receptivity for such springs, and these I will now briefly present, and then sketch the method of founding and cultivating genuine moral dispositions.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

CHAPTER VII A FRIEND IN NEED Some of Mr. Merrick's business friends in New York, hearing of his proposed trip, had given him letters of introduction to people in various European cities.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

"I should need all kinds of books: Bourrienne, Norvins, Victoires et Conquêtes... " "There is Victoires et Conquêtes in that corner, there is Bourrienne in another and Norvins is on the table."
— from My Memoirs, Vol. IV, 1830 to 1831 by Alexandre Dumas

Only in very exceptional cases is the course followed which the Questore is now pursuing.”
— from The Day of Temptation by William Le Queux

This arrangement is very effective, condenses the steam or cools the water, and gives a lifting effect at the same time.
— from Artificial and Natural Flight by Hiram S. (Hiram Stevens) Maxim

comparuit denuo Dæmon, manens tamen extra cameram, nec ingredi voluit, et cum divexatus illum interrogasset, quare de more intrare non auderet, multis verbis injuriosis jactatis contra me, qui talia consulueram, disparuit, nec amplius reversus est.
— from Demoniality; or, Incubi and Succubi by Ludovico Maria Sinistrari

In the text examples of the fifth group are given in connection with the cases of divorce at the pleasure of either party; for where the wife has the right to put away or leave the husband when she likes, the husband, unless in very exceptional cases ( Post , Grundlagen , 271), appears to have the same privilege with respect to the wife; hence Post's first and fifth groups are practically the same.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

"This is very excellent cheese!" said he.
— from The Broad Highway by Jeffery Farnol

The proceeds arising from the sale of the opium crop in British India form a considerable item in the revenues of our Eastern Empire; hence the poppy as the source of this valuable export, almost the whole of which goes to China, is very extensively cultivated in India.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

Joachim appears to have been in very easy circumstances, and the arrangements could hardly be more commodious even though the event had taken place at a certain well-known establishment in the Marylebone Road.
— from Ex Voto: An Account of the Sacro Monte or New Jerusalem at Varallo-Sesia With Some Notice of Tabachetti's Remaining Work at the Sanctuary of Crea by Samuel Butler

— Coronis , Summary, I, VIII EARLY CHRISTIANITY AND ITS DECLINE When a Church is raised up by the Lord, it is in the beginning blameless; and one then loves the other as his brother, as we know of the primitive Church after the Lord's advent.
— from The Gist of Swedenborg by Emanuel Swedenborg