The illegal assumption of arms began at an early date; and in spite of the efforts of the Crown, which have been more or less continuous and repeated, it has been found that the use of "other people's" arms has continued.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The student was merry and gay, brave and affectionate; every drop of blood in him was good and honorable; a better man never lived on earth.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

And Cornudet sat motionless, his eyes fixed now on the dancing flames, now on the froth which crowned his beer; and after each draught he passed his long, thin fingers with an air of satisfaction through his long, greasy hair, as he sucked the foam from his mustache.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

come to a stand, come to a standstill; come to a deadlock, come to a full stop; arrive &c. 292; go out, die away; wear away, wear off; pass away &c. (be past) 122; be at an end; disintegrate, self-destruct.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Aut bibat, aut abeat —Either drink or go.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

And this word, so used in the Greek festivals, aut bibat, aut abeat, “either drink or go,” which sounds better upon the tongue of a Gascon, who naturally changes the h into v, than on that of Cicero:— Vivere si recte nescis, decede peritis.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

At the end of the fortnight Anne took to “haunting” the post office also, in the distracted company of Jane, Ruby, and Josie, opening the Charlottetown dailies with shaking hands and cold, sinkaway feelings as bad as any experienced during the Entrance week.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

"Know, friend Sancho," answered Don Quixote, "that the life of knights-errant is subject to a thousand dangers and reverses, and neither more nor less is it within immediate possibility for knights-errant to become kings and emperors, as experience has shown in the case of many different knights with whose histories I am thoroughly acquainted; and I could tell thee now, if the pain would let me, of some who simply by might of arm have risen to the high stations I have mentioned; and those same, both before and after, experienced divers misfortunes and miseries; for the valiant Amadis of Gaul found himself in the power of his mortal enemy Arcalaus the magician, who, it is positively asserted, holding him captive, gave him more than two hundred lashes with the reins of his horse while tied to one of the pillars of a court; and moreover there is a certain recondite author of no small authority who says that the Knight of Phoebus, being caught in a certain pitfall, which opened under his feet in a certain castle, on falling found himself bound hand and foot in a deep pit underground, where they administered to him one of those things they call clysters, of sand and snow-water, that well-nigh finished him; and if he had not been succoured in that sore extremity by a sage, a great friend of his, it would have gone very hard with the poor knight; so I may well suffer in company with such worthy folk, for greater were the indignities which they had to suffer than those which we suffer.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

These were now baptized after an edifying discourse had preceded the ceremony.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

As it was he but arose at earliest dawn and mechanically took the garden path, trusting to find some excuse for an hour or 267 two of hard manual labour which might guide or exorcise the evil spirits that were rending his very soul.
— from A Colonial Reformer, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Rolf Boldrewood

It must not be left on the part above three hours at a time, and is to be applied afresh every day.
— from The Toilet of Flora or, A collection of the most simple and approved methods of preparing baths, essences, pomatums, powders, perfumes, and sweet-scented waters. With receipts for cosmetics of every kind, that can smooth and brighten the skin, give force to beauty, and take off the appearance of old age and decay by Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz

The most sacred beliefs are attacked every day in the organs of public opinion.
— from Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Frank F. (Frank Field) Ellinwood

Reproduced as frontispiece to this volume. 1887 was the year of the final sittings; the portrait was begun at an earlier date.
— from The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2 by Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir

For here every restraint may be abandoned and every decency may be outraged.
— from London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes

Half a dozen blocks away, among even denser swarms, is another such plot, where there will be football and a skating pond before another season.
— from The Battle with the Slum by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Cider became known to the Britons at an early date.
— from Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England: A History by Richard Valpy French

They only eat, drink, sleep, and then they die... more people are born and also eat, drink, sleep, and so as not to go silly from boredom, they try to make life many-sided with their beastly backbiting, vodka, cards, and litigation.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

His notes and specimens are so complete that I hope it will be possible to complete in Baltimore, at an early day, the work which he had expected to carry on this year.
— from The Cubomedusæ by Franklin Story Conant

As he hummed his way downstairs, he thought sensuously of the imminent reconciliation, and in about ten minutes, having found some barley-sugar buried against an empty day, Michael came back to Stella with peace-offerings and words of comfort.
— from Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie