Then pour the tincted Liquor from the pale Leaves (strain it out, pressing it gently, so that you may have Liquor enough to dissolve your Sugar) and set it upon the fire by it self to boil, putting into it a pound of pure double refined Sugar in small Powder; which as soon as it is dissolved, put in a second pound; then a third, lastly a fourth, so that you have four pound of Sugar to every pound of Rose-leaves.
— from The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Kenelm Digby

EDITOR’S NOTE The following pages are a translation of Dr. Steiner’s Philosophie der Freiheit , which was published in Germany some twenty years ago.
— from The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific Methods by Rudolf Steiner

Then pour the tincted Liquor from the pale leaves (strain it out, pressing it gently, so that you may have Liquor enough to dissolve your Sugar) and set it upon the fire by itself to boil, putting into it a pound of pure double refined Sugar in small Powder; which as soon as it is dissolved, put into it a second pound, then [ Pg 185] a third, lastly a fourth, so that you have four pounds of sugar to every pound of Rose-leaves.
— from The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

This book, published in Germany some twelve years since, and which called forth there plenteous dews of admiration, as plenteous hail-storms of jeers and scorns, I never saw mentioned in any English publication till some year or two since.
— from At Home And Abroad; Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Margaret Fuller

Humbly Shew That Theare is a strip of Land of about fiue or six hundred acors Lys ajoyning To The Town of Groton which be Longs To the town of Dunstable the said strip of land Lys near fouer mill in Length and bounds on the North Line of the said second Parrish in Groton and on the South Side of Newhampsher Line which Peeace by Runing the sd Line of Newhampsher was Intierly Cut off from the town of Dunstable from Receueing any Priuelidge their for it Lys not Less then aboute Eight mill from the Senter of the town of Dunstable and but about two mill and a half from the meeting house in the said second Parish in Groton so that they that settel on the sd Strip of Land may be much beter acommadated to be Joyned to ye town of Groton and to the sd second Parish than Euer thay Can any other way in this Prouince and the town of Dunstable being well sencable thare of haue at thare town meeting on the 19 Day of December Currant voted of the sd Strip of Land allso Jarnes Colburn who now Liues on sd Strip Land from the town of Dunstable to be annexed to the town of Groton and to the sd second Parish in sd town and the second Parish haue aCordingly voted to Recue the same all which may appear by the vote of sd Dunstable and said Parish which will be of Grate advantige to the owners of the sd. strip of Land and a benefit to the said second Parish in Groton so that your Petitioners Humbly Pray that the sd. strip of Land may be annexed to the said second Parish in Groton so far as Groton Nor west corner to do Duty and Recue Priulidge theare and your petionrs In Duty bound shall Euer Pray Peleg Lawrence Will m Prescott Jeremiah Lawrence Dunstable December 24 1751 this may Certifye the Grate and Genirol Courte that I Liue on the slip of Land within mentioned
— from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 by Various

It is a robbery you suggest to me, and my pain is great, seeing that you reckoned on me; others rob from fatal instinct or from corruption of soul, you have come to it because I tried to enlighten you, because I tried to open your minds to the truth.
— from The Shadow of the Cathedral by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

“Add, the least of a courtier among marquises,” put in Genestas, scanning the young puppy, who did not know that his commandant could overhear him.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

‘Her profile, in general,’ said the youngest gentleman, ‘but particularly her nose.
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

This book, published in Germany some twelve years since, and which called forth there plenteous dews of admiration, as plenteous hail-storms of jeers and scorns, I never saw mentioned till some year or two since, in any English publication.
— from Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Margaret Fuller