The Intellectual resides in the brain, within the Pia mater , is governed generally by Mercury .
— 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

Fulgente trahit constrictos gloria curru, / Non 20 minus ignotos generosis —Glory draws all bound to her shining car, low-born and high-born alike.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

A large, neat chauffeur in green got out from the front, and a small, neat manservant in grey got out from the back, and between them they deposited Sir Leopold on the doorstep and began to unpack him, like some very carefully protected parcel.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

[28] As early as 1566, however, the figure of Friar Rush on a ‘painted cloth’ was a familiar one, and is so mentioned in Gammer Gurton’s Needle .
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

‘I’ve got another novelty, Johnson,’ said Mr. Crummles one morning in great glee.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Ballad Continued. 'tis merry, 'tis merry, in good greenwood; So blithe Lady Alice is singing; On the beech's pride, and oak's brown side, Lord Richard's axe is ringing.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

He wants to spy how much I give Grushenka if she comes.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We may, indeed, give general names to these feelings, but they cannot be the same thing in another soul.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

Tis merry, 'tis merry, in good greenwood, Though the birds have stilled their singing; The evening blaze cloth Alice raise, And Richard is fagots bringing.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

If you have consumption spend your money in getting good air, not dope.
— from Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World by Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman) Wooldridge

But me, I generally get tucked down to a sewing table and in a rocking-chair, if there ain't enough cane seats to go around.
— from Mothers to Men by Zona Gale

You do not ask me a single question about a single thing, and therefore I will just tell you how matters in general go on with me.
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

The date of the foundation of the monastery is generally given as falling within the fourth century, though the prior, Kas Elyâs, told me that it was founded in the seventh century.
— from Amurath to Amurath by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

The California Academy of Sciences has in its museum in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, a collection of very fine animal habitat groups, among which are deer, antelope, mountain sheep, cougars, and brown bear.
— from Hunting with the Bow & Arrow by Saxton T. (Saxton Temple) Pope

Ye cannot light the coming night, And shall not mock its gathering gloom; Though dark the cloud shall form my shroud— Though danger league with racking doubt— Away! away!
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete by Various

“’Tis merry, ’tis merry, in good green-wood, When the navis and merle are singing, When the deer sweeps by, and the hounds are in cry,
— from The Knights of England, France, and Scotland by Henry William Herbert

Unsa may inyung gikabildúhan (gipanagkabildúhan)?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

On the following Saturday the Funeral took place;—his remains having been previously removed from Saville-Row to the house of his friend, Mr. Peter Moore, in Great George-Street, Westminster.
— from Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Thomas Moore