In alchemy a distinction was made between stone and spirit, as between body and soul, substance and accident.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

In Chorazin shall Antichrist be born, as some men say.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Pitch mollifies hard swellings, and brings boils and sores to suppuration, it breaks carbuncles, disperses aposthumes, cleanses ulcers of corruption and fills them with flesh.
— 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

The principal trading ports on the Italian side are Brindisi, Bari, Ancona, Sinigaglia, and Venice; on the east side Ragusa, Fiume, Pirano, Pola, and Trieste (Italian).
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

She cannot afford not to go back to nature for these helps, for every woman is in some sense a burden bearer, and she must needs know all she can of what life means in order to bear these burdens well.
— from A Girl's Student Days and After by Jeannette Augustus Marks

The Sunārs also have a story that they are the descendants of one of two Rājpūt brothers, who were saved as boys by a Sāraswat Brāhman from the wrath of Parasurāma when he was destroying the Kshatriyas.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

In this state Alley Mahon found her; but instead of ringing an alarm, or attempting to collect a crowd of the servants to witness a scene, and being besides a stout as well as a discreet and sensible girl, she was able to raise her up, place her on a sofa, until, by the assistance of cold water and some patience, she succeeded in restoring her to life and consciousness.
— from The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

There is a dramatic story of Joe Morrill's sudden appearance, backed by a score of ruffians; of defiance and counter-defiance; of revolvers and "blood on the moonlight"; and of a corrupt deputy marshal cowering with ashen face before the awful denunciations of a bespectacled (p. 234) "tenderfoot"; but unhappily, the authenticity of the story is dubious.
— from Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn

Major Biggs found the prisoners camped in a hollow fronted by the sea, and backed by a semicircle of steep cliffs.
— from A Dark Chapter from New Zealand History by James Hawthorne

With a crash like gun-thunder the huge billow broke, and to Cara’s straining eyes it seemed that Ann’s light form was snatched up as though of no more moment than a floating straw and buried beneath a seething, tumbling avalanche of waters.
— from The Vision of Desire by Margaret Pedler

She told all this to Philip with pretty sighs and becoming blushes, and showed him the photograph of the gay lieutenant.
— from Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham