The philosopher Locke, the worthy Rollin, the learned Fleury, the pedant De Crouzas, differing as they do so widely from one another, are agreed in this one matter of sufficient bodily exercise for children.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The words "device," "ensign," and "cognisance" have no definite heraldic meaning, and are used impartially to apply to the crest, the badge, and sometimes to the arms upon the shield, so that they may be eliminated from consideration.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Harry, with blue eyes, fresh complexion, silken whiskers and curly chestnut hair, was as handsome as a fashion plate.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Dorothea and the others begged him to finish it, and he, as he was willing to please them, and enjoyed reading it himself, continued the tale in these words: The result was, that from the confidence Anselmo felt in Camilla’s virtue, he lived happy and free from anxiety, and Camilla purposely looked coldly on Lothario, that Anselmo might suppose her feelings towards him to be the opposite of what they were; and the better to support the position, Lothario begged to be excused from coming to the house, as the displeasure with which Camilla regarded his presence was plain to be seen.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He assured them that in this battle they were going to fight, not as before, either for Coele-Syria, Phoenicia, or Egypt, but for the whole of Asia.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

They kept everything that could be got in a Petersburg shop, grocery of all sort, wines “bottled by the brothers Eliseyev,” fruits, cigars, tea, coffee, sugar, and so on.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Formerly, they called these by a Greek term, syntaxeis, but of late “controversies;” but they may be either fictitious cases, or those which come under trial in the courts.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

He also begged that he himself might be excused from coming to Court on account of his old age.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

He is right and the other fellows are wrong because a flogging wears off after a bit but a fellow that has been expelled from college is known all his life on account of it.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

As the means to be employed for constructing a sort of domestic observatory depend altogether on places and circumstances, we must leave to the address of a jealous husband the execution of the methods suggested in this Meditation.
— from Analytical Studies by Honoré de Balzac

At all Booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the Publishers. GROSSET & DUNLAP :: New York No Field Collection is Complete Without this Book A LITTLE BOOK of TRIBUNE VERSE By EUGENE FIELD Compiled and edited by Joseph G. Brown , formerly city editor of the Denver Tribune , and an intimate friend and associate of the poet during the several years in which he was on the staff of that paper.
— from Dorothy South: A Love Story of Virginia Just Before the War by George Cary Eggleston

Her thin figure was drawn up to its fullest height, her Irish blue eyes flashed Celtic lightnings.
— from The Camp Fire Girls in After Years by Margaret Vandercook

Let us rather, sir, sweep away, with an impress, the drones of large fortunes, the tyrants of villages, and the oppressors of the poor; let us oblige those to serve their country by force, whose fortunes have had no other effect than to make them insolent and worthless; but let such who, by contributing to commerce, make every day some addition to the publick wealth, be left in the full enjoyment of the rights which they deserve: let those, by whose labour the expenses of the war are furnished, be excused from contributing to it by personal service.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I by Samuel Johnson

They were in a small room, unfurnished except for a table in the center, on which burned an oil lamp of silver, in shape like a boat; the walls were bare, except for certain shelves containing bottles of coloured liquids, other bottles of coloured powders, mortars, retorts, gas-burners, and huge dusty books.
— from The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen

The various accounts offered by the Members, curious as these were, may be left aside for the moment, since the version of the occurrence as given by Edward Fillery comes first in interest.
— from The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood

It is quite likely that no two boys ever filled casks with such expedition as those two did.
— from Diego Pinzon and the Fearful Voyage He Took Into the Unknown Ocean A.D. 1492 by John Russell Coryell

Hence arose the report that the Monument was unsafe , which has been revived in our time; “but,” says Elmes, “its scientific construction may bid defiance to the attacks of all but earthquakes for centuries to come.”
— from Curiosities of Science, Past and Present A Book for Old and Young by John Timbs