Clears the sight, takes away redness and freckles from the face.
— 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

Pissot, at that time my bookseller, gave me but little for my pamphlets, frequently nothing at all, and I never received a farthing for my first discourse.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Here the old man's eyes gleamed with a curiously mingled satisfaction in the consciousness that this smart young fellow relied upon him, and that the smart young fellow was rather a fool for doing so.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Japanese on perceiving them threw a round shot in among them, but without doing any harm; our men replied, and for fifteen minutes there was nothing but ping, ping, ping on both sides.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

The runners are froze fast.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

His tail a plume, a fiery plume displayed (It was a capon that the creature drew Like a wild beast new come from Africa); And with his arms he beat his sides, it's true, With such a frightful noise, that in dismay, E'en I, who pride myself on courage, ran And fled for fear, cursing the evil creature; As, but for him, I should have found a plan To make acquaintance with that gentle nature— So soft and sweet, and with a skin like ours; Long tail, and spotted, with a face
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Such were the future proceedings of this Quillau that I lost the expenses of my privilege, never having received a farthing from that edition; which, probably, had but very middling success, although the Abbe des Fontaines promised to give it celebrity, and, notwithstanding the other journalists, had spoken of it very favorably.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

before; in front, in the van, in advance; ahead, right ahead; forehead, foremost; in the foreground, in the lee of; before one's face, before one's eyes; face to face, vis-a-vis; front a front.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

And to thee will I render thanks hereafter for thy aid, as is right and fitting for men who dwell far off, making glorious thy name and fame; and the rest of the heroes, returning to Hellas, will spread thy renown and so will the heroes' wives and mothers, who now perhaps are sitting on the shore and making moan for us; their painful affliction thou mightest scatter to the winds.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

That Mr. Conkling had received a fee for the prosecution of Major Haddock, and that the same had been received improperly, if not illegally.
— from Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 by George S. (George Sewall) Boutwell

It was a lonely ranch, as far from El Paso in Texas as it was from the namesake town in New Mexico.
— from The Second Latchkey by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

A common spectacle witnessed at the bedside of the sick is that of well-meaning but misguided relatives and friends forcing food and drink on the patient, often by order of the doctor, when his whole system rebels against it and the nauseated stomach expels the food as soon as taken.
— from Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease & Cure by Henry Lindlahr

LXXXI.' Sir Hugh Palliser, who through life manifested an invariable regard and friendship for Captain Cook, has displayed a signal instance, since the Captain's decease, of the affection and esteem in which he holds his memory.
— from Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook With an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Andrew Kippis

The steamers were small and uncomfortable—the very largest of them being only half the size of the very smallest now regarded as fit for passenger service.
— from Dorothy South: A Love Story of Virginia Just Before the War by George Cary Eggleston

But sometimes Susan heard her voice and Mrs. Lancaster's voice rising and falling for long, long talks in the night.
— from Saturday's Child by Kathleen Thompson Norris

Then I suppose you have been getting into some scrape at home, young sir, and run away; for, from your appearance, you would hardly have been before the mast otherwise.
— from One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Though its glow hath raised a fiercer flame
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe