Take of common and Roman Wormwood, of each a pound; Sage, Mints, Bawm, of each two handfuls; the Roots of Galanga, Ginger, Calamus, Aromaticus, Elecampane, of each three drachms; Liquorice, an ounce, Raisins of the Sun stoned, three ounces, Annis seeds, and sweet Fennel seeds, of each three drachms; Cinnamon, Cloves, Nutmegs, of each two drachms; Cardamoms, Cubebs, of each one drachm: let the things be cut that are to be cut, and the things be bruised that are to be bruised, all of them infused in twenty four pints of Spanish wine, for twenty four hours, then, distilled in an Alembick, adding two ounces of white sugar to every pint of distilled water.
— 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

From this portion is the following ;] —That he believes that all the negroes, though not in the first place knowing to the design of revolt, when it was accomplished, approved it.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

Pacific readers can fancy what sort of grace-before-meat this was to frugal Patriotism.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

In the first place, it is necessary to identify the spot where the "newly-made grave" was discovered with Mount Calvary, the place of the sepulchre of Christ.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

The occupation of Savannah, which I have heretofore reported, completes the first part of our game, and fulfills a great part of your instructions; and we are now engaged in dismantling the rebel forts which bear upon the sea-channels, and transferring the heavy ordnance and ammunition to Fort Pulaski and Hilton Head, where they can be more easily guarded than if left in the city.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The proper direction of the canal might be restored by obliterating the false passage, provided the urethra remained perforate in the direction of the meatus.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

We may now consider briefly the inheritance of certain pathological or abnormal states, to see in how far the foregoing principles hold for them also.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

At another time Lisbeth's first thought would have been, “Where is Adam?” but the sudden death of her husband had restored him in these hours to that first place in her affections which he had held six-and-twenty years ago.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

3. Write declarative sentences, using will or shall in the first person (singular or plural) to express a threat, a promise, resolution, consent, desire, determination, simple futurity.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

It is proper, in the first place, to gather a blossom from the negative side of the discussion.
— from Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 04, April 23, 1870 by Various

The Main Roads of Brittany The great national road which stretches from Paris to Brest covers a distance nearly equal to that from Paris to Turin, or from Paris to Amsterdam.
— from Rambles in Brittany by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

In Germany he had seen no parks, and where public walks or gardens had been laid out, walking on the grass was prohibited, whilst here no officious guardian attempted to interfere with the free perambulation of the visitor.
— from Wagner as I Knew Him by Ferdinand Praeger

I am not prepared to say they were true to their first principles--no corporate society ever was, and least of all a religious corporation--but at starting the Cistercians were decidedly opposed to the alienating of tithes and appropriating them to the endowment of their abbeys, and this was probably one among other causes why the Cistercians prospered so wonderfully as they did during the first hundred years or so after their first coming here; people believed that the new order was not going to live by robbing parsons, as the older orders had done without remorse.
— from The Coming of the Friars by Augustus Jessopp

The valley beyond the fort presented a scene of surpassing loveliness, with its rich green meadows, its fields of waving corn, its orchards and its groves.
— from Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by George T. (George Thomas) Stevens

Meanwhile my father stood at the entrance of the restaurant, sad but resigned, and it was after some considerable time and after the removal of the offending joint, that the family party was again gathered together in peace and quiet, and shortly afterwards proceeded on the last stage of its journey and arrived safely at the old family home, which stands amidst some of the most beautiful woods in Scotland.
— from The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon by J. M. (Joseph Maria) Gordon

They are the first present my mother gave me when my father, Count Aymon, dubbed me knight.
— from Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch

So in trouble, when the heart is turbid from the world’s admixtures, and the stirring up of the foul particles which will lie at the bottom, nothing but the pure dew of heaven can restore its purity, when God’s spirit comes down upon it like a gentle rain!
— from Daily Thoughts: selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife by Charles Kingsley

and the framed pieces of worsted-work, performed by the accomplished Dora and the lovely Flora, had they been masterpieces of Titian or Vandyck, to be sure my lady dowager could hardly have valued them at a higher price.
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray