That period, however, was of but brief duration, for we find as early Page 22 {22} as 1390, from the celebrated Scrope and Grosvenor case, (1) that a man could have obtained at that time a definite right to his arms, (2) that this right could be enforced against another, and we find, what is more important, (3) that the Crown and the Sovereign had supreme control and jurisdiction over arms, and (4) that the Sovereign could and did grant arms.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

All the bells of old London rang out for a wistful Whittington in a ragged jacket; Bo-Peep in panniers and pink ribbons wailed for her historic sheep; Mother Hubbard, quaint in a mammoth cap, pursued her fruitless search for bones.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

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— from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Look at me,” cried Denísov who, unable to keep still on one spot, kept turning his horse in front of the squadron.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

H2 anchor CHAPTER 7 Half a minute conducted them through the pump-yard to the archway, opposite Union Passage; but here they were stopped.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

I have good reason to believe, however, that one individual who called upon him at my chambers, and who, with a grand air, he insisted was his client, was no other than a dun, and the alleged title-deed, a bill.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

I had been taken by surprise, and my courage had quite failed me.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

As the strength of the whole Nation was much greater, this estimate may have been for the Upper and Middle Cherokee only.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

A man can wear a dressing gown and slippers in his house; while I am sure that this would not be permitted at the Savoy, though I never actually tested the point.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

He thanked Heaven he had succeeded so far as to find me out by means of an accident which had like to have proved fatal to him; and had the pleasure to think he partly owed his preservation to my humanity, with which he profest himself to be more delighted than he should have been with my filial piety, if I had known that the object of all my care was my own father.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Note 24 ( return ) [ I here use the word idea in Mr. Hume's sense on account of its general currency amongst the English metaphysicians; though against my own judgment, for I believe that the vague use of this word has been the cause of much error and more confusion.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Apologética , MS., cap. xlix.-lii.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Sometimes the pressure of the string partly extinguished the wick and made combustion slower as it neared the point of contact.
— from The Hand in the Dark by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

The squire and Mr. Calhoun sauntered down the street.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various

Junxit Aristides Milesia carmina secum Pulsus Aristides nec tamen urba sua est.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

“I'm your man,” announced Mr. Cuthbert.
— from A Modern Chronicle — Complete by Winston Churchill

Let us take an example of a more commonplace kind in the business world.
— from Heart and Soul by Maveric Post by Victor Mapes

This may be due in part to a kind of accommodation of the maternal organism to the reproductive process as one pregnancy follows another; but I am convinced that it is also due in part to the greater physical and mental composure of experienced mothers.
— from The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy by J. Morris (Josiah Morris) Slemons

Hazel's own father and mother came next; and then she passed round to the fourth pannel, which was but half filled.
— from The Gold of Chickaree by Susan Warner