On the other hand, the grant to Lady Pearce, referred to on an earlier page, whilst not blazoning the Pearce arms, shows the painting upon the patent to have been a lozenge of the arms of Pearce, charged with a baronet's hand impaled with the arms then granted for the maiden name of Lady Pearce.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

But I do not value my good looks; I only like to have them because they belong to you, my dear, and that there may be at least one thing about me worth your having.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

“Why—it is your husband's old patron!” said Mrs. Blowbody, a lady of the neighbourhood who sat beside Lucetta.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Only I must give them this advice: That were it ever so true, that a wise man regards nothing but the body, or, to express myself with more decency, never does anything except what is expedient, and views all things with exclusive reference to his own advantage, as such things are not very commendable, they should confine them to their own breasts, and leave off talking with that parade of them.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Whether the wind and the cold did cause it or no I know not, but having been this day or two mightily troubled with an itching all over my body’ which I took to be a louse or two that might bite me, I found this afternoon that all my body is inflamed, and my face in a sad redness and swelling and pimpled, so that I was before we had done walking not only sick but ashamed of myself to see myself so changed in my countenance, so that after we had thus talked we parted and I walked home with much ado (Captn.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The great hulking scholar of three-and-twenty, who was crying secretly over a passage of Eutropius, flattened his neglected nose against the panes and looked at the drag, as the laquais de place sprang from the box and let out the persons in the carriage.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

v 1 [A] bring a lunch of this sort.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Mores change as fashion does; as language does; by a law of their own.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

There is a forsaking which still sits at the same board and lies on the same couch with the forsaken soul, withering it the more by unloving proximity.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

If it were not a hard thing to say she was a little tired of the children too, tired of having to look after them perpetually, of the nurse’s complaints, and the naughtiness of baby who was spoilt and unmanageable—tired of the bumping and laughing of the boys, and tired too of bidding them be quiet, not to rouse the children.
— from The Sorceress (complete) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

1 That night both armies lay on their arms.
— from Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson

If she meets with no mischance she ought to be at Leopoldville on the 2nd of July.
— from In Darkest Africa, Vol. 1; or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

The day rose and passed away, but Alice lingered on till March.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

He went to the bed, and leaned over the burglar.
— from The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various

Whom we cal Bishopes, by chaungyng of P. into B. and leauing out the E. for shortnes, acordyng to the nature of our tongue.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Richard Hakluyt

In the above instance, after the yellow excrement was voided, the fluid ceased to have any smell, and appeared like curdled milk, and then a thinner fluid, and some mucus, were evacuated; did not these seem to partake of the chyle, of the mucous fluid from all the cells of the body, and lastly, of the atmospheric moisture?
— from Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I by Erasmus Darwin

By a law of that country, their monarch is now authorized to go, whenever he pleases, into the harem of any of his subjects; and the subject, on whose prerogative he thus encroaches, so far from exerting his usual jealousy, thinks himself highly honored by such a visit.
— from Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World by Anonymous

And I cannot help thinking that Chellalu is very like her song; here is an intelligible bit, a line or two in order, then a cheerful tumble up, and an irresponsible conclusion.
— from Lotus Buds by Amy Carmichael

Charles Hayter had been at Lyme oftener than suited her; and when they dined with the Harvilles there had been only a maid-servant to wait, and at first Mrs Harville had always given Mrs Musgrove precedence; but then, she had received so very handsome an apology from her on finding out whose daughter she was, and there had been so much going on every day, there had been so many walks between their lodgings and the Harvilles, and she had got books from the library, and changed them so often, that the balance had certainly been much in favour of Lyme.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen