The properties of this mixture are to cure headaches and to cleanse the brain and to remove any bad taste in the mouth.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The man contented himself by briefly replying ‘Wisitors;’ and taking him by the arm in exactly the same manner as the constable had done the day before, led him, through several winding ways and strong gates, into a passage, where he placed him at a grating and turned upon his heel.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

The eldest Jondrette girl had retired behind the door, and was staring with sombre eyes at that velvet bonnet, that silk mantle, and that charming, happy face.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

It is easy to trace the transition of the group into a clique that later became a club, continuing for a time to meet at the coffee house or the chocolate house, but eventually demanding a house of its own.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

During the whole term of this recess from the guardianship of the Bank, Mrs. Sparsit was a pattern of consistency; continuing to take such pity on Mr. Bounderby to his face, as is rarely taken on man, and to call his portrait a Noodle to its face, with the greatest acrimony and contempt.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

About the same Time, a Guard le Coast , of Porto Rico , commanded by one Matthew Luke , an Italian, took four English Vessels, and murthered all the Crews: He was taken by the Lanceston Man of War, in May 1722, and brought to Jamaica , were they were all but seven deservedly hanged.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

After this important step M. Fleurus departed for his native shores, where he had other business besides the Meynell affair to claim his attention.
— from Charlotte's Inheritance by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

"And a long time before that," Captain Abersouth resumed, after a pause, more, apparently, to con his memory than to enjoy my good opinion of it, "you lost me at sea—look here; I didn't read anything but George Eliot at that time, but I'm told that you lost me at sea in the Mudlark .
— from The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Negligible Tales, On With the Dance, Epigrams by Ambrose Bierce

Yes, it was even suggested that she had never been married, and they called her the "wild countess,"--much as we speak of wild fruit to distinguish them from those that are genuine.
— from Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern

Surely the section is mended and the change has not been made.
— from Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein

On the ledge there was a hut in which there lived an ancient Buddhist, who was a holy man, as they called him, and who had been there during time which had not been measured.
— from The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett

She looked Lali up and down with a glance in which many feelings met, and then, catching her hands warmly, she lifted them, put them on her own shoulders, and said: “My dear beautiful savage, you are fit and worthy to be Queen of England; and Frank, when he comes—” “Hush!” said the other dreamily, and put a finger on Marion’s lips.
— from The Translation of a Savage, Complete by Gilbert Parker

Seeing, therefore, the equilibrium of the whole mass, and the consequent hydrostatic balance of the land in the sea,—seeing also the small compressibility of the solid portions, and the great compressibility of the fluid, the inference is legitimate that the whole is hydrostatically balanced, and that our globe is a globe of water, with an intermediate shell of land, specifically lighter than the fluid in which it is suspended.
— from Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Thomas Bassnett