Caesar, speaking of the Suabians: “in the charges they make on horseback,” says he, “they often throw themselves off to fight on foot, having taught their horses not to stir in the meantime from the place, to which they presently run again upon occasion; and according to their custom, nothing is so unmanly and so base as to use saddles or pads, and they despise such as make use of those conveniences: insomuch that, being but a very few in number, they fear not to attack a great many.” That which I have formerly wondered at, to see a horse made to perform all his airs with a switch only and the reins upon his neck, was common with the Massilians, who rid their horses without saddle or bridle: “Et gens, quae nudo residens Massylia dorso, Ora levi flectit, fraenorum nescia, virga.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

and she quickly took out two very small ivory shells or bowls, each pair fastened together by a loop, through which she passed her thumb so that the little [113] spoons hung on her palm, and she could snap them together with her fingers.
— from Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

But supposing the beauty equal on both sides, it does not follow that the inclinations must be therefore alike, for it is not every beauty that excites love, some but pleasing the eye without winning the affection; and if every sort of beauty excited love and won the heart, the will would wander vaguely to and fro unable to make choice of any; for as there is an infinity of beautiful objects there must be an infinity of inclinations, and true love, I have heard it said, is indivisible, and must be voluntary and not compelled.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Maple Tree, 112 Marigolds, 114 Marjoram, wind, 112 —— sweet, 113 Marsh-mallows, 218 Masterwort, 114 , 223 , 224 Maudlin, Sweet, 114 Mead-sweet, 227 Mechracah, 223 Medicines, method of mixing, 210 —— on the Temperature of, 376 —— Temperate, 377 —— Hot, ib. —— Hot in the first degree, ib. —— —— second degree, 378 —— —— third degree, ib. —— —— fourth degree, ib. —— Cooling, 378 —— cool in the first degree, 379 —— —— second and third degree, ib. —— cold in the fourth degree, 379 —— moistening, ib. —— drying, ib. —— of the appropriation of the several parts of the body, 380 —— appropriated to the Head, ib. —— —— Brain, ib. —— —— Eyes, ib. —— —— Mouth & Nose, 382 —— —— Ears, ib. —— —— Teeth, ib. —— —— Breast & lungs, ib. —— —— Heart, 383 —— —— Stomach, 384 —— —— Spleen, ib. —— —— Reins and Bladder, 386 —— —— Womb, ib. —— —— Joints, ib. —— —— Propriety, or operation of, 387 —— —— Hardening, ib. —— —— Loosening, 388 —— —— Drawing, 389 —— —— Discussive, ib. —— —— Repelling, 390 —— —— appropriated to the Liver, 385 —— —— Cleansing, 391 —— —— Suppuring, 392 —— —— Provoking urine, ib. —— —— Breeding flesh, 393 —— —— Glutinative, ib. —— —— Resisting poison, ib. —— —— Purging, 394 Medlar, 115 Melilot, or King’s Claver, 115 Mercury, French and Dog, 116 —— Dog, ib. Metals, Minerals, and Stones, 254 Metals, Stones, Salts, and other Minerals, 276 Mints, 117 Misselto, 118 Mithridate Mustard, 182 Money-wort, or Herb Twopence, 119 Monk’s Rhubarb, 225 Moonwort, 120 Mosses, 120 Motherwort, 121 Mouse-ear, 122 Mugwort, 122 Mulberry Tree, 123 , 223 Mullein, ib. Mustard, 124 —— Hedge, 125 Nailwort, or Whitlow-grass, 126 Nep, or Catmint, ib. Nettles, 127 , 227 Nightshade, 128 Oak, 128 Oats, 129 Oils, 205 Oils, 353 —— Simple Oils, by expression, ib. —— —— —— Infusion and Decoction, 354 —— Compound Oils by Infusion and Decoction, 355 Ointments, 208 Ointments, more simple, 358 —— more compound, 362 One Blade, ib. Onions, 130 , 220 Orchis, 129 Orpine, ib. Orris, or Flower-de-luce, 222 Parsley, 131 —— Piert, or Parsley Breakstone, ib. Parsnips, 132 —— Cow, ib. —— garden and wild, 224 Peach Tree, 133 Pear Tree, 134 [401] Pellitory of Spain, 134 , 225 —— of the Wall, 135 Peony, male and female, 224 Pennyroyal, 136 Peony, male and female, 137 Pepperwort, or Dittander, 138 Periwinkle, 138 Peter’s Wort, St., 139 Pimpernel, 139 Physic, a Key to Galen’s Method of, 376 —— the general use of, ib. —— of the temperature, ib. Pills, 209 , 339 Pine, Ground, 140 Plaisters, 208 , 367 Plantain, 141 , 224 Plants, things bred from, 252 Plums, 142 Polypody of the Oak, 142 Poplar Tree, 143 Poppy, 144 Poultices, 209 Preserved Roots, Stalks, Barks, Flowers, Fruits, 314 Preserves, 206 Primroses, 146 Privet, 146 , 218 Purslain, 146 Queen of the Meadows, or Meadow Sweet, 147 Quince Tree, 148 Radishes, garden and wild, 225 Ragwort, 149 Rest-Harrow, or Camonack, 150 Rattle Grass, 150 Receipts, General Caution, 395 —— to purge the Head, ib. —— for a Rheum in the Head, and the Palsy, ib. —— —— ib. 396 —— for the falling off of the Hair, ib. —— to purge the Head, ib. —— for Eyes that are blasted, ib. —— Excellent Water to clear the Sight, ib. —— for a hurt in the Eye with a stroke, ib. —— to draw Rheum back from the Eyes, ib. —— for a Web in the Eye, ib. —— pain in the Ears, ib. —— an Imposthume in the Ear, ib. —— Polypus, or a fleshy substance growing in the Nose, ib. —— bleeding at the Nose, ib. —— a Canker in the Nose, ib. —— another for the Polypus, ib. —— extreme heat of the Mouth, 397 —— for a Canker in the Mouth, ib. —— to keep Teeth white, ib. —— —— fasten the Teeth, ib. —— for the Tooth-ache, ib. —— Scurvy in the Gums, ib. —— for rotting and consuming of the Gums, ib. —— the cause of Infirmities in the Face, ib. —— for a Face full of red pimples, ib. —— to take away the marks of Small Pox, ib. —— caution concerning the Infirmities of the Throat, ib. —— for Hoarseness, 398 —— for the Quinsey, ib. —— for Sore Breasts, ib. —— —— —— —— inward Medicine for, ib. —— for Moisture of the Stomach, ib. —— for the heat of the Stomach, ib. —— to cause the Liver well to digest, ib. —— a Caution, ib. —— for a stoppage of the Liver, ib. —— for the Liver, ib. Reed, Aromatical, 219 Reeds, common and sugar, 218 Rhadish, or Horse Rhadish, 148 Rhapontick, or Rhubarb of Pontus, 225 Rhubarb, 225 Rhubarb, or Rephontic, 156
— 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

You will see officials buying estates on twelve thousand francs a year.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

The day after the above martyrdoms, Catharine Hut, of Bocking, widow; Joan Horns, spinster, of Billericay; Elizabeth Thackwel, spinster, of Great Burstead; suffered death in Smithfield.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

or was she made thy guide, Superiour, or but equal, that to her Thou didst resign thy manhood, and the place Wherein God set thee above her made of thee,
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Evils are not remedied by other evils, and in our misfortunes each of us has his share of blame.” Elias did not again reply, but dropped his head and rowed along until they reached the shore, where he took leave of Ibarra: “I thank you, sir, for the condescension you have shown me.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

There were white-tusked wild males, with fallen leaves and nuts and twigs lying in the wrinkles of their necks and the folds of their ears; fat, slow-footed she-elephants, with restless, little pinky black calves only three or four feet high running under their stomachs; young elephants with their tusks just beginning to show, and very proud of them; lanky, scraggy old-maid elephants, with their hollow anxious faces, and trunks like rough bark; savage old bull elephants, scarred from shoulder to flank with great weals and cuts of bygone fights, and the caked dirt of their solitary mud baths dropping from their shoulders; and there was one with a broken tusk and the marks of the full-stroke, the terrible drawing scrape, of a tiger’s claws on his side.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

"It is one of the periodical visits of the governor of the state of Bonista," explained Don Luis.
— from The Young Engineers in Mexico; Or, Fighting the Mine Swindlers by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

On reaching Philadelphia, we at once betook, ourselves to the humble dwelling on Fifth Street occupied by Evan Lewis, a plain, earnest man and lifelong abolitionist, who had been largely interested in preparing the way for the Convention.
— from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII, Complete The Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life, and Criticism by John Greenleaf Whittier

A band was playing and hundreds and hundreds of persons, mostly children, were sitting on boards, each one raised a little higher than the others, and whistling and clapping their hands.
— from The Circus Comes to Town by Lebbeus Mitchell

And even as when most welcome to his children is the sight of a father's life, who lies in sickness and strong pains long wasting away, some angry god assailing him; and to their delight the gods have loosed him from his trouble; so welcome to Odysseus showed land and wood; and he swam onward being eager to set foot on the strand.
— from The Odyssey of Homer, Done into English Prose by Homer

Till thou art landed on the shore Of blest eternity.
— from The Deaf Shoemaker: To Which Are Added Other Stories for the Young by Philip Barrett

Pirates and privateers scoured the seas to rob the treasure-ships, and great expeditions were sent out by England in war times for the same purpose.
— from St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 by Various

"You will freeze," said others, "or will die with scurvy, or be eaten by those terrible white polar bears and wolves."
— from The Stories of El Dorado by Frona Eunice Wait

The former, it has been well said, turned his lines into a series of brilliant epigrams, sparkling and cold as the “Heroic Epistles” of Ovid; the other chilled the warmth and toned down the colors of Homer into a sober, drab-tinted hue, through which gods and men loom feebly, and the camp of the Achæans, the synod of the Trojans, and the deities in council, have much of the air of a Quaker meeting-house.
— from Words; Their Use and Abuse by William Mathews

Williams’s brigade comprised five companies of the 3d Rhode Island, the 3d New Hampshire, six companies of the 97th Pennsylvania, and a section of Battery E, 3d United States artillery.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens