This peculiarity, however, seldom occurs except in the case of a field quarterly, the object in coats of this character being to prevent different quarters of one coat of arms being ranked as or taken to be quarterings representing different famil
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

She had measured his tall and shapely form, his strong shoulders, his broad chest, and she looked into his face, on which a blush rose as often as the young man met her eyes.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

Tomorrow, we are to set out in a cox and four for Yorkshire; and, I believe, we shall travel that way far, and far, and farther than I can tell; but I shan’t go so far as to forget my friends; and Mary Jones will always be remembered as one of them by her Humble sarvant, WIN.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Three mots on this bugle will, I am assured, bring round, at our need, a jolly band of yonder honest yeomen.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

But however powerfully this may react on political views in particular cases, still it must always be regarded as only a modification of them; for the political view is the object, War is the means, and the means must always include the object in our conception.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

The many literary qualifications he possesses rank him foremost among literary characters.——That unequalled production from the pen of this wonderful philosopher, denominated " A Pickle for the Knowing Ones ," has not only received universal applause, and been ranked as of the first magnitude in the literary world, but has had such rapidity in its sale, that a copy cannot be procured, though diligently sought after by men of the most transcendant merit.
— from A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter

Still, it must always be regarded as one of the natural causes which may bring action in War to a standstill without involving a contradiction.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

As he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the clanging.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The letter concluded with this advice: "All those who are going to act on the suggestions to make a united effort to bring about better railroad and other travelling facilities should not omit to remind our 103 people that they have a duty to perform as well as the railroads.
— from Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization by Lyman Beecher Stowe

are but reiterating an old tradition, and carrying on those august methods of enlarging the mind, and cultivating the intellect, and refining the feelings, in which the process of Civilization has ever consisted. 4.
— from The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by John Henry Newman

It was a day when authority was questioned, a day for "extending the area of freedom," but he went too far even for emancipated England; and the mysterious power of the marriage tie has always been reverenced as one of the main bulwarks of that righteousness which exalteth a nation.
— from English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppée

Then there are "passage boats" from the whole interior network of rivers and canals, each district having its special rig and build, recognizable at once by the initiated.
— from The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

Every article was scattered about in dire confusion; there were piles of clothing and bedding; rich and ornamental stuffs were torn to pieces, and the household furniture, broken up, was strewn about the courtyard.
— from A Narrative of the Siege of Delhi With an Account of the Mutiny at Ferozepore in 1857 by Charles John Griffiths

We Know Nothing Definite of the Form of Molecules.—In this book they will always be represented as of the same size, that of two squares.
— from An Introduction to Chemical Science by Rufus P. (Rufus Phillips) Williams

The islands for the most part were still under Venice, and some of the braver-spirited young men became Stradiots in the Venetian service; but too many only went off into the mountains, and became robbers and outlaws there, while those who lived a peaceable life gave way under their miseries to the two greatest faults there had always been page 326 p. 326 in the Greek nature, namely, cheating and lying.
— from Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

[9] in connection therewith, says: "... that he may enjoy his life-long a freehold house unburdened by all burgher rights and other municipal service, to be used by him and inhabited as a free dwelling, and that he may also, for the necessities of his household and of his wife and servants, brew his own beer free, and that he may likewise purvey for himself and his household foreign beer and also wine for use, and yet he shall not sell any such beer....
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

About one-third in breadth of the nail should be taken away; one blade of strong and sharp-pointed scissors is passed along beneath the nail as far as its root, and by rapid approximation of the other blade the part is divided; the isolated portion is then laid hold of by dissecting forceps, or small flat-mouthed pliers, and pulled away by the root.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

He found him, as before, resting after one of those meals for which he was famous.
— from The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents by George Barton