This view is incorrect, for the nervous system is probably affected in many cases of scurvy.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Shall I propose that we look for examples of art and want of art, according to our notion of them, in the speech of Lysias which you have in your hand, and in my own speech? PHAEDRUS: Nothing could be better; and indeed I think that our previous argument has been too abstract and wanting in illustrations.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

Meantime the symptoms which attended my case for the first six weeks of my experiment were these: enormous irritability and excitement of the whole system; the stomach in particular restored to a full feeling of vitality and sensibility, but often in great pain; unceasing restlessness night and day; sleep—I scarcely knew what it was; three hours out of the twenty-four was the utmost I had, and that so agitated and shallow that I heard every sound that was near me.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

In short, I have for some time been of opinion (no offence, dear Doctor) that the sum of all your medical discoveries amounts to this, that the more you study the less you know.—I have read all that has been written on the Hot Wells, and what I can collect from the whole, is, that the water contains nothing but a little salt, and calcarious earth, mixed in such inconsiderable proportion, as can have very little, if any, effect on the animal economy.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

She is paying her four deniers* quatuor denarios .”
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

The Manifolde vntruthes which is spread abroade, concerning the detestable actions and apprehension of those Witches wherof this Historye following truely entreateth, hath caused me to publish the same in print: and the rather for that sundrie written Copies are lately dispersed therof, containing, that the said witches were first discouered, by meanes of a poore Pedler trauailing to the towne of Trenent , and that by a wonderfull manner he was in a moment conuayed at midnight, from Scotland to Burdeux in Fraunce (beeing places of no small distance between) into a Marchants Seller there, & after, being sent from Burdeux into Scotland by certaine Scottish Marchants to the Kinges Maiestie, that he discouered those Witches and was the cause of their apprehension: with a number of matters miraculous and incredible: All which in truthe are moste false.
— from Daemonologie. by King of England James I

They were all greatly surprised, indeed petrified at seeing me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[“Should I place confidence in this monster?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

When, in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville came to study Democracy in America, the trial of nearly a half-century of the working of our system had been made, and it had been proved, by many crucial tests, to be a government of "liberty regulated by law," with such results in the development of strength, in population, wealth, and military and commercial power, as no age had ever witnessed.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Meat was served very rarely; most of the dishes were made of milk, and on Wednesdays and Fridays we had Lenten fare, and the food was served in pink plates, which were called Lenten.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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— from Selection from J. & A. Churchill's General Catalogue (1890) Comprising All Recent Works Published by Them on the Art and Science of Medicine by J. & A. Churchill

[255] This section did not appear in the first edition; see Introduction, p. 59.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther

As for me, I am still a stranger in Paris, and amuse myself but very indifferently."
— from Pelham — Volume 02 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

He said in part: “I ask your Honors to deal leniently with these two lads and to recall how much they have had to contend with in their short young lives.
— from The Frontier Boys in the Sierras; Or, The Lost Mine by Wyn Roosevelt

Shocked with the grossness of the songs in popular use, she determined to purify the lyrics of her country; and while doing this she contrived carefully to conceal the worker.
— from Model Women by William Anderson

If it fails, the formation of fresh ideals and fresh hypotheses is demanded; but that which causes one postulate to prevail over another is always the satisfaction which, if successful, it promises to some need or desire.
— from Pragmatism by D. L. (David Leslie) Murray

Whigs abroad were well caricatured by Smollett in Peregrine Pickle in the figures of the Painter and the Doctor.
— from English Travellers of the Renaissance by Clare Howard

Thus, one Ole, who is driving the hay-cart up the steep inclined plane to the hay-loft, over the cow-house, has shown a strong turn for mechanics, and on the clergyman’s recommendation [267] has obtained from the government three hundred dollars to defray the expense of a journey to England, that he may be further initiated and perfected in the mysteries of his trade.
— from The Oxonian in Thelemarken, volume 1 (of 2) or, Notes of travel in south-western Norway in the summers of 1856 and 1857. With glances at the legendary lore of that district. by Frederick Metcalfe

This is to certify That he is living, and keeps his business as formerly, with his son in partnership, at the Heart and Crown on Saffron Hill; there being divers imitations, you are desired to observe the mark, which is the Heart Crown and Dagger, with How under it.
— from A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times. by Henry Sampson