Bessy Cranage, in her neatest cap and frock, was crying, though she did not exactly know why; for, as her cousin Wiry Ben, who stood near her, judiciously suggested, Dinah was not going away, and if Bessy was in low spirits, the best thing for her to do was to follow Dinah's example and marry an honest fellow who was ready to have her.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

CHAPTER VIII MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL Same day, 11 o’clock p. m. —
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

As, then, there are two regenerations, of which I have already made mention,—the one according to faith, and which takes place in the present life by means of baptism; the other according to the flesh, and which shall be accomplished [Pg 356] in its incorruption and immortality by means of the great and final judgment,—so are there also two resurrections,—the one the first and spiritual resurrection, which has place in this life, and preserves us from coming into the second death; the other the second, which does not occur now, but in the end of the world, and which is of the body, not of the soul, and which by the last judgment shall dismiss some into the second death, others into that life which has no death.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

" He seemed to the onlookers as much raised above himself as Colonel John seemed depressed below himself.
— from The Wild Geese by Stanley John Weyman

The 'Vier Jahreszeiten' was still open, etc. 'Juist, by Jove!' said Davies, as we walked on.
— from The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers

65 Mary, Queen, 100 , 102 Materia Medica of Dioscorides, 8 , 120 , 136 Matthiolus, P. A., see Mattioli, P. A. Mattioli, P. A., 9 , 68 , 79 -85 , 92 , 98 , 103 , 104 , 186 -190 , 196 , 199 Maximilian II, The Emperor, 72 , 81 May Lily, 146 “Mayden heere”, 38 Melanchthon, P., 68 , 75 Mesua, J., 196 Methodi herbariæ of Zaluziansky, 117 Meydenbach, J., 25 Meyer, A., 180 Millington, Sir T., 132 Mistletoe, 46 , 124 , 214 Modena Library, 24 Molinäus, J., see Desmoulins, J. Monardes, N., 104 -106 Monocotyledons, 79 , 135 , 145 , 153 Montpelier, University of, 74 , 78 , 93 , 94 Moonwort, 185 Moretus, E. J. H., 70 Moretus, J., 70 Morison, R., 96 , 116 Mosses, 151 Muenster, Sebastian, 110 Mugwort, see Artemisia Munich Library, The, 11 Musée Cluny, 31 Musée Plantin-Moretus, 70 “Mussherons”, 140 Myrtle, 138 Narcissus, 29 Natura stirpium, De , of Ruel, 98 Natural History of Pliny, 9 , 214 Nature, Vertu et Utilité des Plantes, De la , of de la Brosse, 118 “Nenufar”, 122 Neottia , 148 Nero, 8 Neuw Kreuterbuch of Tabernæmontanus, see Neuw Kreuterbuch of Theodor Neuw Kreuterbuch of Theodor, 62 , 68 New Herball, A , of Turner, 62 , 102 -104 Neuw Kreüterbůch of Fuchs, 60 -64, 175 Neuw Kretterbuch of Bock, 55 Newe Herball of Macer, A , 40 Nicolaus Damascenus, 3 , 4 Nicotiana (Tobacco), 105 , 106 , 148 Niewe Herball, A , of Lyte, 62 , 64 , 72 , 73 , 106 -108, 125 , 126 Nigella , 145 Norton, J., 68 , 108 , 109 Nuphar , 146 Nuremberg Dispensatorium, The , 66 Nuremberg, Garden of Camerarius at, 68 Nymphæa , 146 Oak, 5 , 138 Observations de plusieurs singularites, Les , of Belon, 196 Octavian on “Bernicles”, 112 Odo, 40 “Orage”, 122 Orange, 198 Orchid, Bird’s-nest, 148 Ornithogalum , 196 Orobanche , 104 , 148 Ortus Sanitatis , 14 , 15 , 18 , 24 , 25 -33 , 40 , 120 , 138 , 157 , 158 , 165 -168 , 170 , 175 , 186 Ortus Sanitatis, The German , see Herbarius, The German Ortus Sanitatis, The Smaller , see Herbarius, The German Osmunda , 55 Oxalis , 121 , 146 Padua, Botanical Garden at, 90 Padua, University of, 90 , 94 Pandectarius, 21 Papaver , 148 Papaveraceæ, 148 “Pappus,” Fuchs’ definition of,
— from Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany 1470-1670 by Agnes Robertson Arber

On October 19, 1745, Jonathan Swift died.
— from A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by Justin McCarthy

The sight of his old friend and the knowledge that he was on his way to join Sabine drove him almost mad again.
— from The Man and the Moment by Elinor Glyn

We were just sitting down to dinner so Grandfather asked him to stay and have “pot luck” with us.
— from Village Life in America 1852-1872, Including the Period of the American Civil War As Told in the Diary of a School-Girl by Caroline Cowles Richards