The herb being bruised and mixed with a little mustard, draws a blister as well, and as perfectly as Cantharides, and with far less danger to the vessels of urine, which Cantharides naturally delight to wrong; I knew the herb once applied to a pestilential rising that was fallen down, and it saved life even beyond hope; it were good to keep an ointment and plaister of it, if it were but for that.
— 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

It is a selected list; every book in it has achieved a certain measure of success .
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

She loved every body, was interested in every body's happiness, quicksighted to every body's merits; thought herself a most fortunate creature, and surrounded with blessings in such an excellent mother, and so many good neighbours and friends, and a home that wanted for nothing.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

I stammered some lame expressions; but was truly glad when other people, coming up with profuse congratulations, covered my deficiency by their redundancy.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

About the eleventh century, the second tempest had subsided by the expulsion or conversion of the enemies of Christendom: the tide of civilization, which had so long ebbed, began to flow with a steady and accelerated course; and a fairer prospect was opened to the hopes and efforts of the rising generations.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

It is uncertain; because the subject lies entirely beyond the reach of human experience.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

neuter , with the accent on the e , was pronounced as three syllables, later eu became diphthongal; neutiquam with synizesis ( 117 ) of e .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

But that of M. de Saint-Candé, girdled, like Saturn, with an enormous ring, was the centre of gravity of a face which composed itself afresh every moment in relation to the glass, while his thrusting red nose and swollen sarcastic lips endeavoured by their grimaces to rise to the level of the steady flame of wit that sparkled in the polished disk, and saw itself preferred to the most ravishing eyes in the world by the smart, depraved young women whom it set dreaming of artificial charms and a refinement of sensual bliss; and then, behind him, M. de Palancy, who with his huge carp's head and goggling eyes moved slowly up and down the stream of festive gatherings, unlocking his great mandibles at every moment as though in search of his orientation, had the air of carrying about upon his person only an accidental and perhaps purely symbolical fragment of the glass wall of his aquarium, a part intended to suggest the whole which recalled to Swann, a fervent admirer of Giotto's Vices and Virtues at Padua, that Injustice by whose side a leafy bough evokes the idea of the forests that enshroud his secret lair.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Yet were it so, that these of which I have hitherto spoken, and such like enticing baits, be not sufficient, there be many others, which will of themselves intend this passion of burning lust, amongst which, dancing is none of the least; and it is an engine of such force, I may not omit it.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Dar come up yere one dem yaller barbers, an' he pick er thing at her dat looked sorter like er banjo, an' she cl'ared out wid him."
— from The Starbucks by Opie Percival Read

My sweet leads: she knows not why, but now she loiters, Eyes bent anemones, and hangs her hands.
— from Poems — Volume 2 by George Meredith

SEE Liek, Edna B. Health stories.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1962 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Your spirit lies enchained by despotic bulls and edicts—the unfettered flight of thought is restrained by curses.
— from John Ronge; The Holy Coat of Treves; New German-Catholic Church by Anonymous

Sir Walter Scott, speaking of the beautiful description given by Dryden of the Attic nights he enjoyed with Sir Charles Sedley and others, observes, "He had not yet experienced the disadvantages attendant on such society, or learned how soon literary eminence becomes the object of detraction, of envy, of injury, even from those who can best feel its merit, if they are discouraged by dissipated habits from emulating its flight, or hardened by perverted feeling against loving its possessors."
— from The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events by Leigh Hunt

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— from The Poisoned Pen by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

For I shrink back, beholding Io's lot Of loveless maidenhood, Consumed and smitten low exceedingly By the wild wanderings from great Hera sent!
— from Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments by Aeschylus

These provisions indicate the direction in which Dominican zeal was striving to curtail the privileges so long enjoyed by the Jews and the royal intention to protect them against local legislation, which had doubtless been attempted under this impulsion.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

She had her bonnet on, ready for the walk of confidence, and, her face flushed with delight, she looked even beautiful.
— from Tancred; Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield