His novels, about thirty in number, include: The Devil's Die ; The Woman Who Did , &c. Allen, John, a Scottish political and historical writer; born in 1771, died in 1843.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Wormwood water distilled cold, about the end of May, heats and strengthens the stomach, helps concoction, stays vomiting, kills worms in the stomach and bowels, it mitigates the pains in the teeth, and is profitably given in fevers of choler.
— 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

Of all the calamities to which the condition of mortality exposes mankind, the loss of reason appears, to those who have the least spark of humanity, by far the most dreadful; and they behold that last stage of human wretchedness with deeper commiseration than any other.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

“Why, bless my soul, Gordon,” said he, after a long pause, “why, why,—whose dirty cloak is that you have on?”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

He who when duty calls him spares No time for thought of royal cares, Must with his realm and people all Involved in fatal ruin fall.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

1406 G Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. , July 4, 1912.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Put differently, we do not regard the cloud as meaning or indicating a face, but merely as suggesting it, while we do consider that the coolness may mean rain.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Then indeed Perdiccas, after forcing his way within the second stockade, fell there wounded with a dart, and was carried back grievously injured to the camp, where he was with difficulty cured of his wound.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

The soldiers, wild with delight, clapped their hands and bore the young girl in triumph into the midst of the camp, that was just getting to arms.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

For here, a century before Josiah Wedgwood’s time, we have examples of English pottery which would do credit to the atelier of that distinguished potter himself.
— from The Collector's Handbook to Keramics of the Renaissance and Modern Periods by William Chaffers

They have a custom also of anointing their heads with what they call monoe , an oil expressed from the cocoa-nut, in which some sweet herbs or flowers have been infused: As the oil is generally rancid, the smell is at first very disagreeable to a European; and as they live in a hot country, and have no such thing as a comb, they are not able to keep their heads free from lice, which the children and common people sometimes pick out and eat; a hateful custom, wholly different from their manners in every other particular; for they are delicate and cleanly almost without example, and those to whom we distributed combs, soon delivered themselves from vermin, with a diligence which showed that they were not more odious to us than to them.[5]
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr

It is a solemn thought that whatever we do counts for nothing if our relation to God be wrong, while the little that we may do may count for much if we have taken the right position before him.
— from And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses by J. Wilbur (John Wilbur) Chapman

he exclaimed, wild with delight, clapping his hands.
— from A Christian But a Roman by Mór Jókai

Oh would but that my words, Oh would that they were written down! Consigned to writing for ever, Or engraven upon a rock!
— from The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur by Emile Joseph Dillon

But, if intangible and powerless ever To keep a thing from passing through itself On any side, 'twill be naught else but that Which we do call the empty, the inane.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

He concocts stories which would do credit to a literary man, and sometimes makes nearly as much money as the daring thief.
— from Tramping with Tramps: Studies and Sketches of Vagabond Life by Josiah Flynt