7. Such things as by boiling cause sliminess to a decoction, as figs, quince-seed, linseed, &c. your best way is, after you have bruised them, to tie them up in a linen rag, as you tie up calf’s brains, and so boil them.
— 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

Michael Ivánovich did not at all know when “you and I” had said such things about Bonaparte, but understanding that he was wanted as a peg on which to hang the prince’s favorite topic, he looked inquiringly at the young prince, wondering what would follow.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Man's ancient arms Were hands, and nails and teeth, stones too and boughs— Breakage of forest trees—and flame and fire, As soon as known.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

Yea, thou sublime one, one day shalt thou also be beautiful, and hold up the mirror to thine own beauty.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There might have been [ 16 ] noticed in his frank, pleasant face some faint traces of Spanish blood showing through a beautiful brown color, slightly flushed at the cheeks as a result perhaps of his residence in cold countries.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

[327-360] lord Pluto himself, hateful and horrible to her hell-born sisters; into so many faces does she turn, so savage the guise of each, so thick and black bristles she with vipers.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Likewise her feminine eye took in the clothes he wore, the cheap and unaesthetic cut, the wrinkling of the coat across the shoulders, and the series of wrinkles in the sleeves that advertised bulging biceps muscles.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

With regard to opinions on physical phenomena, they display, says Megasthenes, great simplicity, their actions being better than their reasoning, for their belief is chiefly founded on fables.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Some took a nibble, some took a bite, but no sooner had they tasted a page or two, than they spat them out with a wry face, as if to say: “What a horrid taste!
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

To the south they are bounded by magic, to the west by a mountain, and to the north by the voice and anger of the Polar wind.
— from A Dreamer's Tales by Lord Dunsany

But he who out of bravado, ostentation, and without any worthy aim, should undertake the climbing to inaccessible mountain-tops, the swimming across an arm of the sea, the fighting openly ferocious animals, etc., he would accomplish actions which, it is true, would not be without merit, since they are brave; but their merit would not be equivalent to that we should attribute to other actions less difficult, but more wise.
— from Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Paul Janet

Superior lateral process short, thick, and bent backward; joined to the inferior process on the right side, inclosing an oval foramen.
— from The Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphiidae An Account of the Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphiidae in the Collection of the United States Museum... by Frederick W. (Frederick William) True

Which without science gains the battle day; Yet would I rather win the field by chance, Than study tactics, and be beat by France.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume III. by Walter Scott

Gillam, who was exhibited to ridicule as “Midas, the Surrey justice,” appears to have been most unpopular, if not altogether unfit for the responsible position in which he was placed; “the note sent to a bookseller by a magistrate” is attributed to this hero: 176 “Sir, Send me the ax Re Latin to a Gustus of Pease.”
— from A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria by Joseph Grego

The Pontine Marshes consist of a low tract of land, extending from the elevated ridge of Castel Gandolfo to a spur of the Apennines, which approach the Mediterranean near Velletri, being a length of about 20 miles, whilst on the east they are bordered by the Apennines, from whence numerous streams and torrents descend into the marshes; and on the west, or sea side, they are bounded by a line of sandbanks, or dunes, thrown up by the waves and storms from the west; so that they form, as it were, a basin into which all the waters flow, without a natural outfall through which they can escape.
— from Autobiography of Sir John Rennie, F.R.S., Past President of the Institute of Civil Engineers Comprising the history of his professional life, together with reminiscences dating from the commencement of the century to the present time. by Rennie, John, Sir

"The people seized their arms, but before they were ready for the attack the Zealots, learning what was going on, took the initiative and fell upon them.
— from For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty