The powder thereof, to the quantity of a spoonful, drank in wine, is a wonderful help to women in their sore travail, as also for the suffocating or risings of the mother, and for these effects, it is likely it took the name of Motherwort with us.
— 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

If this be true, you acted unwisely; for had you closed your eyes, you might, perhaps, have fallen asleep, and enjoyed the blessing of refreshing slumber; if it be not true, you acted more unwisely still, by stating that as a fact which is altogether untrue.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

But it must not be forgotten that the size of the blind spot increases with the distance so that at a fairly great distance, possibly half the length of a room, the blind spot becomes so great that a man’s head may disappear from the field of vision.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Simply because she’s taken an absurd fancy into her heart.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Madame de Chevreuse evidently went from surprise to astonishment, and from astonishment to stupefaction.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

"If therefore," said' he, "thou hast already erected my statue, let it stand; but if thou hast not yet dedicated it, do not trouble thyself further about it, but dismiss thy army, go back, and take care of those affairs which I sent thee about at first, for I have now no occasion for the erection of that statue.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Rend with songs the air above For the man who owns her love!
— from The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Arthur Sullivan

Published in quarto size, handsome cloth binding, and sent to any address for $1.50.
— from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 6, March, 1885 by Various

OF THE LETTER S. The consonant S has a sharp, hissing, or hard sound; as in sad, sister, thus : and a flat, buzzing, or soft sound, like that of z ; as in rose, dismal, bosom, husband.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

“So, you see, that doesn’t look much like being so taken up with the Little Lodge that they were jealous of us, as you intimated some time ago,” added Frances.
— from The Woodcraft Girls in the City by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

Gradually yet surely, these arts, at first so little understood, [pg xxvi] modified our own methods of ornamentation, until frescos wall-papers, wood-work and carpets, dishes and table-cloth metal work and book-covers, Christmas cards and even railroad advertisements were decorated, modelled, and designed after Japanese style.
— from Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings by Edward Sylvester Morse

At the same time and after, following his old trade of preaching without a call, he was imprisoned for a considerable time.”
— from The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

Commodore Hull was the man that showed that an American frigate was equal to a frigate of any other nation.
— from Memoirs of the Generals, Commodores and other Commanders, who distinguished themselves in the American army and navy during the wars of the Revolution and 1812, and who were presented with medals by Congress for their gallant services by Thomas Wyatt

Mix these solutions, then set aside for a short time, and afterwards filter.
— from Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Robert Kemp Philp

But perhaps you would like to see for yourself the "white-haired Sage of Queen-Square Place," as Dr. Bowring, now Sir John Bowring, used to call him,—the "Philosopher,"—the "Hermit,"—the "High Priest of Reform," as others, like Mr. Canning, the Premier, Sir Samuel Romilly, Sir Francis Burdett, the two Mills, father and son, Dr. Southwood Smith, the Austins, and Frank Place, the great radical tailor, used to call him.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various