[142] and the blowpipe; for the harder metals are not dissolved or melted by steady quiet fire, without the aid of the blowpipe.
— from Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature by Francis Bacon

"The old man assured me he had a pleasure in reciting a tale which reflected so much honour on the Baron; 'and let me,' said he, 'in the pride of my heart, let me add, no disgrace on me or mine; for, Madam, poverty, in the eye of the right-judging, is no disgrace.
— from The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire

Nothing but a groundless preconception of the nature of the millennium will account for the sound of words taking the place of their sense in the reader's mind, and no degree of mere scholarship can obviate this propensity of the human mind in "the things of the Spirit of God.
— from Notes on the Apocalypse by David Steele

The Acts given by Metaphrastes are not deserving of much attention.]
— from The Lives of the Saints, Volume 02 (of 16): February by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

By having this abundance I gain merely this, that I have to guard more, to distribute to others, and have the trouble of taking care of more; for a great many attendants now demand of me their food, their drink, and their clothes.
— from Expositor's Bible: The Book of Ecclesiastes by Samuel Cox

“When the hunters that desire her skinne, set upon her, she flyeth very swift, carrying her yong ones upon her back, and covering them with her broad taile; now, for so much as no dogge or man dareth to
— from Curious Creatures in Zoology by John Ashton

He had also a natural son, John Mor "Mac Uilleam," who married a natural daughter or Murdoch Mackenzie, II. of Redcastle.
— from History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name by Alexander Mackenzie

So she and Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy made a nice dish of maple-sugar frosting to go on top of the buns when they were baked.
— from Sammie and Susie Littletail by Howard Roger Garis

He evidently has a great tendency to empirical remedies, and would have made a natural doctor of mighty potency, possessing the shrewd sense, inventive faculty, and self-reliance that such persons require.
— from Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. by Nathaniel Hawthorne