Grosvenor ["Azure, a garb or"] is usually quoted as another example, and possibly correctly, but a very interesting origin has been suggested by Mr. W. G. Taunton in his work "The Tauntons of Oxford, by One of Them":— "I merely wish to make a few remarks of my own that seem to have escaped other writers on genealogical matters.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Probably the most egregious instance of such a grant is to be found in the case of the grant to the first baronet of the family of Antrobus, who on purchasing the estate of Rutherford, the seat of the extinct Lords Rutherford, obtained from the then Lyon King of Arms a grant of the peerage supporters carried by the previous owners of the property.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

A nick name for a presbyterian: from their cropping their hair, which they trimmed close to a bowl-dish, placed as a guide on their heads; whence they were likewise called roundheads.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Chapter VI Illustrating the Laws of Attraction It is evident to you now that Maggie had arrived at a moment in her life which must be considered by all prudent persons as a great opportunity for a young woman.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

I see no reason why such natural suitability should not be taken into consideration; but as soon as they prefer a material because it is rich, their hearts are already given over to luxury, to every caprice of fashion, and this taste is certainly not their own.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

And the Prussian, without speaking a word, poured down one after another glassfuls of cognac.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Soon the sun came out, and taking it as a good omen, I cleared up likewise and enjoyed my journey with all my heart.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

New congratulations passed between them, and round the supper-table appeared a group of faces, smiling with felicity, but with a felicity, which had in each a different character.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

The green light of a police-station, and greener radiance on the snow; the drama of a patrol-wagon—gong beating like a terrified heart, headlights scorching the crystal-sparkling street, driver not a chauffeur but a policeman proud in uniform, another policeman perilously dangling on the step at the back, and a glimpse of the prisoner.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Whilst Pantagruel was writing these foresaid verses, Panurge halved and fixed upon a great stake the horns of a roebuck, together with the skin and the right forefoot thereof, the ears of three leverets, the chine of a coney, the jaws of a hare, the wings of two bustards, the feet of four queest-doves, a bottle or borracho full of vinegar, a horn wherein to put salt, a wooden spit, a larding stick, a scurvy kettle full of holes, a dripping-pan to make sauce in, an earthen salt-cellar, and a goblet of Beauvais.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

It was believed that a sprig of the mistletoe cut by a Hay on Allhallowmas eve, with a new dirk, and after surrounding the tree three times sunwise, and pronouncing a certain spell, was a sure charm against all glamour or witchery, and an infallible guard in the day of battle.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

I have scarcely the faintest idea of an attack (general one) being made upon us, but will be prepared should such a thing take place."
— from The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct, Volume 1 (of 2) A Narrative and Critical History by George Cary Eggleston

Get a tight whiskey barrel, if it is clean you need not rinse it, and put into it ten gallons of the best vinegar you can procure, with one quart of whiskey and one quart of molasses; every day for a week, add a gallon of good cider that has not been watered, and shake the barrel each time; let it stand in this state two weeks, shaking the barrel frequently.
— from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers by Elizabeth E. (Elizabeth Ellicott) Lea

About the year 1564, Asaf Khan Hirvys, an Indian noble, was raised by the emperor to the rank of an Omrah of five thousand, and appointed governor of [147] Kurrah and Mannichpoor.
— from Female Warriors, Vol. 2 (of 2) Memorials of Female Valour and Heroism, from the Mythological Ages to the Present Era. by Ellen C. (Ellen Creathorne) Clayton

At this place there was a village of twenty families, with a hotel and a garrison of United States soldiers.
— from Indian Creek Massacre and Captivity of Hall Girls Complete history of the massacre of sixteen whites on Indian creek, near Ottawa, Ill., and Sylvia Hall and Rachel Hall as captives in Illinois and Wisconsin during the Black Hawk war, 1832 by Charles Martin Scanlan

Ever and anon a group of pirates would advance, and, as they gazed, pity, remorse, and even admiration seemed to blend in their swarthy countenances, as they looked at the motionless helpless group.
— from Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island by Julia de Winton

Gaul, visited by missionaries from Ephesus, in turn sent others on; and the Church in London, as throughout these Isles, in Romano-British times can be safely described as a daughter of Gaul, and a granddaughter of the Ephesus of St. Timothy.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch by Arthur Dimock

I asked a group of boys.
— from Crimes of Charity by Konrad Bercovici

A few small bits of wreckage continued to burn, and also a grove of trees and brushwood on the island.
— from The Rover Boys on Land and Sea: The Crusoes of Seven Islands by Edward Stratemeyer

As regards the latter there is the word imbele , but this word is used to express the intimate social relationship existing between the members of a clan, and not to express the idea of an actual group of villages.
— from The Mafulu: Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson