["Out of the coronet of a Count of France a dexter arm in armour embowed grasping in the hand a sword all proper, hilt and pommel or, the blade piercing a fleur-de-lis of the last"].
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

'At such a price he must purchase some successes and how can we live through them, even if he is baffled in the end.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Having made these arrangements, he again started, and pitched his camp near the temple of the Dioscuri in Phliasia.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

The old intolerable thought returns, 'for Banquo's issue have I filed my mind'; and with it, for all the absolute security apparently promised him, there returns that inward fever.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

But tell me, while we are still at peace, how or by what did you recognise the lady our mistress; and if you spoke to her, what did you say, and what did she answer?"
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And so at present he only expressed his delight, the unexpected delight he experienced at their meeting.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

“It’ll be all the better, Agafea Mihalovna, it won’t mildew, even though our ice has begun to thaw already, so that we’ve no cool cellar to store it,” said Kitty, at once divining her husband’s motive, and addressing the old housekeeper with the same feeling; “but your pickle’s so good, that mamma says she never tasted any like it,” she added, smiling, and putting her kerchief straight.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Thereupon many of the nuns raised their eyes to the abbess's head and she also, putting her hand thereto, perceived, as did the others, why Isabetta spoke thus; wherefore the abbess, becoming aware of he
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

He threatened, as I remember, that if she did not submit he would slay her, slay a slave and place him beside her and say he found him there.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Miss Binswanger caught her breath on the crest of a sob and pushed her untouched plate toward the center of the table; tears swam on a heavy film across her eyes and thickened her gaze and voice.
— from Just Around the Corner: Romance en casserole by Fannie Hurst

They made a stretcher and put him on it, and carried him with them out to the coast.
— from Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North by Fullerton Leonard Waldo

He read in her soul that she, who was predestined to become a saint, already protected him.
— from Thais by Anatole France

Peter would take them along Tavy Cleave for a mile, then assure them a storm was coming up and it would be necessary to seek shelter as soon as possible, hurry them back, and demand half-a-guinea in return for his services.
— from By Violence by John Trevena

On one side it was exposed to the almost unbroken sweep of the Atlantic Ocean; on the other it was washed by the tranquil waters of a deep bay, which formed a safe and picturesque harbour for numerous small craft which frequently took shelter there from press of weather when running up channel.
— from Captain Mugford: Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors by William Henry Giles Kingston

It was rather a stupid book, with many tedious passages, but in it she was told how the high-minded hero, not being able, for grave reasons, to aspire to the hand of the heroine, had taken refuge in an icy coldness, much as it cost him, and as soon as possible had gone away.
— from Jacqueline — Volume 1 by Th. Bentzon

His countenance too, Mary saw, bore signs of annoyance; but that his recent quarrel might have effected, and she affectionately placed her hand in his, and looked her thanks for the implied felicitations, coldly and cautiously as they were conveyed.
— from Mary Seaham: A Novel. Volume 1 of 3 by Mrs. (Elizabeth Caroline) Grey

The time of service arrived, the organist takes his seat, having on a surplice and purple hood with white fur trimming, and, sending out a few solemn strains, the choir is heard in the vestry at the remote end of the church singing “Amen.”
— from The Church Index A Book of Metropolitan Churches and Church Enterprise: Part I. Kensington by William Pepperell

The most powerful of them, France, Austria, and Spain, during the sixteenth century, and subsequently also Portugal, had succeeded in the claim to the right of excluding objectionable candidates in papal elections.
— from Church History, Volume 3 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

But as soon as possible he reported to Madam Wetherill.
— from A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Amanda M. Douglas