The root consists of many brownish strings or fibres, smelling somewhat like unto cloves, especially those which grow in the higher, hotter, and drier grounds, and in free and clear air.
— 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

Let us consult experience, the guide that ought always to be followed whenever it can be found.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

How many families have we in England that live upon credit, even to the tune of two or three years' rent of their revenue, before it comes in!—so that they must be said to eat the calf in the cow's belly .
— from The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Daniel Defoe

II Let us closely examine this system of remuneration for work done, preached by the French, German, English, and Italian collectivists (the Spanish anarchists, who still call themselves collectivists, imply by Collectivism the possession in common of all instruments of production, and the "liberty of each group to divide the produce, as they think fit, according to communist or any other principles").
— from The Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz

He was her only child, her all; and he was sufficiently good to look upon, clever enough to pass muster in a crowd.
— from The Brentons by Anna Chapin Ray

But let us count even this a progress, for we have seen that the murder of a pigeon had been a capital crime."
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

ends, seeing we have these Promises, and believe that God is beginning to fulfil them, let us constantly endeavour to have our Minds sufficiently disintangled from the surfeiting Cares of this Life, and redeemed from the Love of the World,
— from The Journal, with Other Writings of John Woolman by John Woolman

And by the Fable of Ceres , continually wandring in search of her daughter Proserpina , is meant nothing else but the longing desire of men, who live upon Ceres earth, to attaine a place in Proserpina , the Moone or Heaven.
— from The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet by John Wilkins

Leave it all to the chief, and let us copy everything they do, so as to show Beaver Tail we have handed the whole job over to him.”
— from The Pioneer Boys of the Yellowstone; or, Lost in the Land of Wonders by St. George Rathborne

Immediately below the point on which they stood, Mr. Kent says, a low undulating country extended to the northward, as far as he could see.
— from Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete by Charles Sturt

We judge the future by the seasons past, And judging thus, eternity will loom Upon Creation ere thy name is classed Among the things that were.
— from The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in The South-West Containing the Whole of The Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Streaks of Squatter Life; and Far-Western Scenes; In a Series of Forty-Two Humorous Southern and Western Sketches, Descriptive of Incidents and Character by John S. Robb

Sailing against current: In going against a strong current to windward you can force a vessel through, no matter how strong the tide is, if you can lay up close enough to get the wind on one bow and the tide on the other.
— from Hints to Young Yacht Skippers by Thomas Fleming Day