| 1. | One afternoon, walking with Pearl in a retired part of the peninsula, she beheld the old physician with a basket on one arm and a staff in the other hand, stooping along the ground in quest of roots and herbs to concoct his medicine withal. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 2. | An oarsman sprains his wrist the carpenter concocts a soothing lotion. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |