Common yellow Loosestrife grows to be four or five feet high, or more, with great round stalks, a little crested, diversly branched from the middle of them to the tops into great and long branches, on all which, at the joints, there grow long and narrow leaves, but broader below, and usually two at a joint, yet sometimes three or four, somewhat like willow leaves, smooth on the edges, and of a fair green colour from the upper joints of the branches, and at the tops of them also stand many yellow flowers of five leaves a-piece, with divers yellow threads in the middle, which turn into small round heads, containing small cornered seeds: the root creeps under ground, almost like coughgrass, but greater, and shoots up every Spring brownish heads which afterwards grow up into stalks.
— 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

Instead of a bed, they were allowed, sick or well, only a hard board, eighteen inches broad, to sleep on, without any covering but their wretched apparel; which was a shirt of the coarsest canvass, a little jerkin of red serge, slit up each side up to the arm-holes, with open sleeves that reached not to the elbow; and once in three years they had a coarse frock, and a little cap to cover their heads, which were always kept close shaved as a mark of their infamy.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Trustee Savings Bank Sparkassenabteilung savings department Sparkassenwesen savings banking Sparkonto deposit account Sparkonto savings account Sparkonto; Einlagenkonto deposit account Sparpfennig nest-egg Sparquote saving ratio Sparquote savings rate sparsam thrifty sparsam umgehen economize sparsam wirtschaften operate economically sparsam; wirtschaftlich economical Sparsamkeit parsimony Sparsamkeit thrift Sparsamkeit thriftiness Spartätigkeit savings activity Sparverein provident society Sparverein savings club
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Here also a poplar grew, which they said had sprung up ever since Melesigenes arrived".
— from The Iliad by Homer

Itaque, non ut aliquando anteponeremus utilia honestis, sed ut ea sine errore diiudicaremus, si quando incidissent, [294] induxit eam, quae videretur esse, non quae esset, repugnantiam.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If you had counted her words you would have noticed that she used exactly six, two of which gave me to understand that she knew no French, so four remained, and much can be said in four words.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Then straightway Little John and Will Stutely came leaping and stood upon either side of Robin Hood, and quickly drew their broadswords, the while a mighty voice rolled over the heads of all, "Here be I, good master, when thou wantest me"; for it was Friar Tuck that so called from the organ loft.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

What tears of burning rage shall thrill, When mourns thy tribe thy battles done, Thy fall before the race was won, Thy sword ungirt ere set of sun!
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

When it was over, she would be all in a sweat, utterly exhausted: she would smile calmly and feel very happy.
— from Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Romain Rolland

What I do say is that, if we would supplant the opinions and policy of our fathers in any case, we should do so upon evidence so conclusive, and argument so clear, that even their great authority, fairly considered and weighed, cannot stand; and most surely not in a case whereof we ourselves declare they understood the question better than we.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

They glanced and laughed inconsequently; they talked of Tony and the escape, with a curious exhilaration, and more curious gaps of silence; they gave to this meagre breakfast a sense of banqueting, but banqueting under the edge of some unusual event, soon to fall.
— from Admiral's Light by Henry Milner Rideout

Fruit one inch in diameter, cone globular, brown in the autumn; did not notice it before; fifteen six-sided scales, two seeds under each, still hanging on, though the leaves have dropped; only to produce seeds, I think.
— from Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar

Our Arabs, who consider this a fair day's work, will now, in hopes of a halt, show us every strew of quartz and every fragment of wall.
— from The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

There the mariner That sailed the sea under Euboea saw Flashing amidst the wide obscurity
— from Modern Italian Poets; Essays and Versions by William Dean Howells