Some writers, for example Neumann and Czerny, treat the disorder by giving milk which has been scalded or brought to the boiling-point.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

This great Spanish Armada was so far from being esteemed invincible in the opinion of the English, that many young men and gentlemen, in hope to be partakers of a famous victory against the Spaniards, provided ships at their own expense, and joined themselves to the English fleet; among whom were the earls of Essex, Northumberland, and Cumberland, Thomas and Robert Cecil, Henry Brooks, William Hatton, Robert Cary, Ambrose Willoughby, Thomas Gerard, Arthur George, and other gentlemen of good note and quality.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

La philosophie non seulement dissipe nos inquiétudes, 5 mais elle nous arme contre tous les coups de la fortune —Philosophy not only dissipates our anxieties, but it arms us against the buffets of fortune.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The gendarmes, the local police, the chief of police from Dieppe, the villagers, all circulated to and fro in the halls, examining every nook and corner that was open to their inspection.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

They are all comely of countenance, and exceedingly neat and cleanly; they look as if they were just out of a band-box.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

2173 Caius Caligula, the Emperor. 2174 The Emperor Nero actually commenced the work, having opened the undertaking with great pomp, and cut away a portion of the earth with his own hands.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

It seemed to be all old nooks and corners; and in every nook and corner there was some queer little table, or cupboard, or bookcase, or seat, or something or other, that made me think there was not such another good corner in the room; until I looked at the next one, and found it equal to it, if not better.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Here M. Le Scour ends his narrative, leaving the reader to imagine the enthusiastic applause and fond embraces bestowed upon Victor for this most marvellous story, by the happy gathering of country-folk in that cosy warm bakehouse in Lower Brittany, while without the cold east wind of winter was whirling into every nook and corner the falling flakes of snow.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

That Shower's reasoning, that we are not bound by statutes, because not represented in parliament, is universal, and therefore his exception, "unless specially named," although it is taken from analogy to the case of Ireland, by lord Coke and others, yet it is not taken from the common law, but is merely arbitrary and groundless, as applied to us: because, if the want of representation could be supplied, by "expressly naming" a country, the right of representation might be rendered null and nugatory.
— from Novanglus, and Massachusettensis or, Political Essays, Published in the Years 1774 and 1775, on the Principal Points of Controversy, between Great Britain and Her Colonies by Daniel Leonard

The elementary species, on the other hand, must have arisen by the production of new qualities, each new acquisition constituting the origin of a new elementary form.
— from Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

The two men opposite looked for an instant into the narrowing gray eyes, noted a certain tightening of the square jaw and the clenching of a pair of very capable fists, and tarried not upon further orders.
— from The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

Not a sparkle rose to his eyes, not a curl to his lip.
— from Neæra: A Tale of Ancient Rome by Graham, John W. (John William), active 1886-1887

The amber glass dispelled this trouble perfectly, enabling the eye to search carefully every nook and crevice through the vague incandescence which blinds the observer in hazy weather.
— from My Attainment of the Pole Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909. With the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy by Frederick Albert Cook

And the old man met them, even Nestor, and caused the spirit to fail within the breasts of the Achaians.
— from The Iliad by Homer

To a spirit aware of the new influences abroad, and fresh from contact with evils rooted in the very foundations of the existing system, there was a peculiar irony in being advised to seek guidance and instruction in the society of ecstatic nuns and cloistered theologians.
— from The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton

I guess, as far as living up to his profession goes, the elder will compare pretty favorably with Levi Boulter, who gets up and testifies every night, and cheats the very eye-teeth out of people in the daytime."
— from Further Chronicles of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Somehow evil is so compactly organized, wires of connection are so completely in touch with every nook and corner, that the “boss” sits quietly at the switchboard and issues orders.
— from Is the Devil a Myth? by C. F. (Charles Franklin) Wimberly