Boiled in water unto a thick jelly, and taken, it stays spitting of blood; and boiled with mint and butter, it helps the hoarseness of the throat.
— 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

2, 13; and elsewhere in the New Testament, Matthew 10:18; 17:25; 1 Timothy 2:2; and in Josephus also; though I suspect Josephus particularly esteemed Titus as joint king with his father ever since his divine dreams that declared them both such, B. III.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

All the guests protested; for the chevalier had just related in an entertaining manner various adventures in which he had participated with his father, a magistrate at Palermo, and which established his judgment and taste in such manners.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

‘I’ll tell you at once,’ said I. ‘I will confess that I came here for the purpose of seeing you (not without some monitory misgivings at my own presumption, and fears that I should be as little welcome as expected when I came), but I did not know that this estate was yours until enlightened on the subject of your inheritance by the conversation of two fellow-passengers in the last stage of my journey; and then I saw at once the folly of the hopes I had cherished, and the madness of retaining them a moment longer; and though I alighted at your gates, I determined not to enter within them; I lingered a few minutes to see the place, but was fully resolved to return to M— without seeing its mistress.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

But the rummy part is I feel just as though I still had a body.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

the light-spot jerked away towards it, swifter than a frightened fish.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The psychologists of France—and where else are there still psychologists nowadays?—have never yet exhausted their bitter and manifold enjoyment of the betise bourgeoise, just as though... in short, they betray something thereby.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Just as there is something of the body in the soul, since it sometimes reproduces its form, so there is something of the soul in the body.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Just at that instant, some one cried out “Sail-ho!”
— from Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

when he persisted in remaining in the territories of his benefactor, the sultan, in opposition to the orders of that monarch, and absolutely fought, with the few domestics that attended his person, against an army of janissaries and Tartars, I should have suspended my judgment about its truth; but, having spoken to many who actually witnessed the fact, and having never heard it called in question, I cannot possibly do otherwise than believe it; because, after all, although such conduct is neither wise nor common, there is nothing in it contradictory to the laws of nature, or the character of the hero.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 06 by Voltaire

Anastasia responded, just a trifle impatiently, shaking her head.
— from Adrian Savage: A Novel by Lucas Malet

[214] He then walked back in his tracks from the edge of the cliff into the woods and disappeared just as the Indians, sure of their prey, reached the spot.
— from Strange Stories of Colonial Days by Various

"Charles I's head was cut off" is just as true in summer as in winter, on Sundays as on Mondays.
— from Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell

Just as the Superior mines have produced cheap iron and steel, just as the Inland Seas have been the means of giving the nation cheap lumber, so will they for all time to come supply unnumbered millions with cheap bread.
— from The Great Lakes The Vessels That Plough Them: Their Owners, Their Sailors, and Their Cargoes, Together with a Brief History of Our Inland Seas by James Oliver Curwood

He seemed then to jump across the intervening space.
— from The Dark Forest by Hugh Walpole