Some think the lungs are under Jupiter; and if the lungs then the breath; and though sometimes a man gets a stinking breath, and yet Jupiter is a fortune, forsooth; up comes Mars to him; Come brother Jupiter, thou knowest I sent thee a couple of trines to thy house last night, the one from Aries, and the other from Scorpio; give me thy leave by sympathy to cure this poor man with drinking a draught of Wormwood beer every morning.
— 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

That the quiet Elizabeth, who had long ago appraised life at a moderate value, and who knew in spite of her maidenhood that marriage was as a rule no dancing matter, should have had zest for this revelry surprised him still more.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Ibn Batuta says nothing of Síráf as a seat of trade; but the historian Wassáf, who had been in the service of Jamáluddín al-Thaibi, the Lord of Kais, in speaking of the export of horses thence to India, calls it "the Island of Kais."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

= KEY: Indiscernible, [See DISCERNIBLE].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

"I know in such a world as this No one can gain his heart's desire, Or pass the years in perfect bliss; Like gold we must be tried by fire;
— from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt

"But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men."
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

I should, sir, and the danger: You know, I shewed the statute to you.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

She gazed upon a world she scarcely knew, As seeking not to know it; silent, lone, As grows a flower, thus quietly she grew, And kept her heart serene within its zone.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

In this fortune sinneth that hath allotted her to Gisippus my friend, rather than to another; and if she must be loved, (as she must, and deservedly, for her beauty,) Gisippus, an he came to know it, should be better pleased that I should love her, I, than another.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

In order to admire or esteem any thing for a continuance, we must, at least, have our curiosity excited by knowing, in some degree, what we admire; for we are unable to estimate the value of qualities and virtues above our comprehension.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Kabinga, it seems, was pleased with the cloth, and says that he will ask for maize from his people, and buy it for me; he has rice growing.
— from The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi by David Livingstone

They, too, are dreaming of the race; and Katrinka is singing through their dreams—laughing, flitting past them; now and then a wave from the great organ surges through their midst.
— from Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge

The man whose genius inspires me most with admiration, respect, and terror—were he its enemy, I would kill, in spite of all," said the half-caste, with an effort.
— from The Wandering Jew — Volume 11 by Eugène Sue

God said,—I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

And you keep it stuffed around in every junk hole from the roof to the cellar.
— from Shavings: A Novel by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Since first you took, and after set me free, (Whether a sense of gratitude it be, Or some more secret motion of my mind, For which I want a name that's more than kind) I shall be glad, by whate'er means I can, To get the friendship of so brave a man; And would your unavailing valour call, From aiding those whom heaven has doomed to fall.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by John Dryden

Do you know, I sometimes half feel that I would like to be a man?"
— from Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio by A. G. (Albert Gallatin) Riddle

We, all of us, such as we are, have reason to know that crowned kings are less ungrateful than kings of our profession; that the most sordid man of business is not so mercenary nor so keen in speculation; that our brains are consumed to furnish their daily supply of poisonous trash.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Calvin in Geneva, Knox in Scotland, and the Puritans in New England, though they sought to unite the two powers in the same governing body, sought to unite them in the hands of the church rather than of the state, in consequence of their misinterpretation of the Hebrew commonwealth, which, in fact, gave us the first example in history of the separation of the two powers, the sacerdotal and the secular, always asserted and insisted on by the Catholic Church.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various