Sometimes the spleen is not only obstructed, but also hardened by melancholy humours, and in such cases emolient medicines may be well called splenicals, not such as are taken inwardly, for they operate upon the stomach and bowels, but such as are outwardly applied to the region of the spleen.
— 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

The circumstances of which story is not only perpetuated by the three escutcheons, but by the exterior ornaments of the achievement of the family of Errol; having for crest, on a wreath, a falcon proper; for supporters two men in country habits, holding the oxen-yokes of a plough over their shoulders; and for motto, "Serva jugum.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

I can see it now, or at least much more of it, but it has taken me a long time, and a good deal of honest intellectual effort.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

For the premises of the required demonstration must consist of caused beliefs, which as having been caused will equally stand in need of being proved true, and so on ad infinitum : unless it be held that we can find among the premises of our reasonings certain apparently self-evident judgments which have had no anteceden
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The Beginning of May 1722, they got to the West-Indies , and near the Island of Diseada , took a Brigantine, one Payne Master, that afforded them what they stood in need of, which put them in better Temper, and Business seemed to go on well again.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

If we stand in need of a wise woman—[midwife, Fr.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

It is barely credible that by this time in his life he stood in need of any one to answer for him in the court of Can Grande.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Fourscore thousand pounds do not stand in need of an advocate to recommend them.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

In this,’ said I, ‘not only you in England, but a great part of the world, imitate some ill masters, that are readier to chastise their scholars than to teach them.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

“She is no other than the accursed Ione , which has already wrought me so much injury.
— from The Pirate of the Mediterranean: A Tale of the Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

By that time Dave was sound asleep, for he had been through a great deal and was sorely in need of rest before he reached the scene of his intended activities.
— from Dave Darrin After the Mine Layers; Or, Hitting the Enemy a Hard Naval Blow by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

From this substance a solution of pure sulphate of alumina is easily obtainable by lixiviation, and allowing the resulting solution to deposit its silica before using it, but for many purposes the presence of the finely divided silica is not objectionable.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Our wire entanglements were exceedingly poor, and immediate attention was directed to the improvement of this important part of our defences; the parapets also were thin, firebays sadly in need of revetment, and the whole sector seriously lacking in shelter for the men.
— from The War History of the 4th Battalion, the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 1914-1919 by F. Clive Grimwade

“ Resolved , That the murderous assault upon our honored Senator, Charles Sumner, is not only a dastardly assault upon his person, and, through him, upon the right of free speech, but also a wound which we individually feel, and by which our very hearts bleed; and whether he shall recover, or sink into a martyr’s grave,—which may God avert!—we will address ourselves unto prayer and effort that this sorrowful event may become the glorious resurrection of national virtue, and the triumph of Freedom.”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 05 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

It was Craneycrow, beyond all doubt, but what supernatural power had transferred it bodily from the squarrose hill on which it had stood for centuries, to the spot it now occupied, grim and almost grinning?
— from Castle Craneycrow by George Barr McCutcheon

We don't stand in need of your advice.
— from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas

In psalm and antiphon, inexhaustibly [10] fresh, the soul seemed to be taking refuge, at that undevout hour, from the sordid languor and the mean business of men's lives, in contemplation of the unfaltering vigour of the divine righteousness, which had still those who sought it, not only watchful in the night but alert in the drowsy afternoon.
— from Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance by Walter Pater

Sir James Graham replied, that "it did appear to him, that this matter of the coming scarcity, if not of famine, in Ireland, had an immediate and indissoluble connection with the question of the Corn Laws; and that he, for one, would not propose to the people of Great Britain, to
— from The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John, Canon