But so long as the Sovereign has the power to create a new order of Knighthood, and attach thereto Heraldic insignia, so long as the Crown has the power to create a new coronet, or to order a new ceremonial, so long as new coats of arms are being called into being,—for so long is it idle to treat Armory and Heraldry as a science incapable of further development, or as a science which in recent periods has not altered in its laws.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

[1102] Censor Fulvius ran mad for untiling Juno's temple, to cover a new one of his own, which he had dedicated to Fortune, [1103] and was confounded to death with grief and sorrow of heart.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But if the invader be gone after plundering the territory, the offending state shall be the enemy of the Argives, Mantineans, Eleans, and Athenians, and war shall be made against it by all these cities: and no one of the cities shall be able to make peace with that state, except all the above cities agree to do so.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Your presence is requested at the funeral of Miss Ann Forsyte, in Highgate Cemetery, at noon of Oct. 1st.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

Thus it appears that the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

I recollect, indeed, that one day, while Madam Clot, a neighbor of ours, was gone to church, I made water in her kettle: the remembrance even now makes me smile, for Madame Clot (though, if you please, a good sort of creature) was one of the most tedious grumbling old women I ever knew.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Concerning its use as a mark of difference it will be treated of further in the chapter upon marks of difference and cadency, but as a charge it will seldom be found in any position except in chief, and not often of other than three points, and it will always be found drawn throughout, that is, with the upper line extended to the size of the field.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Call the death by any name your Highness will, attribute it to whom you will, or say it might have been prevented how you will, it is the same death eternally—inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself, and that only—spontaneous combustion, and none other of all the deaths that can be died.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

His diary still contains a note of occasional long walks; and once more he was the centre of a circle of friends, whose cordial recollections of their pleasant intercourse afterwards found expression in a lasting memorial.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Thomas Henry Huxley

His wife Julia died, and he joined his strength with that of the aristocrats; while Cæsar, a nephew of old Marius, was looked upon as a leader of the party of the people.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 11 (of 15), Roman by Charles Morris

He gave no heed, however, but drew from a case a number of odes and compositions, which he told me were his own.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

[351:A] The council, in the time of Governor Andros, consisted of Ralph Wormley, collector and naval officer of Rappahannock River; Colonel Richard Lee, collector and naval officer of upper district of Potomac River—these two having been appointed while Sir William Berkley was governor; Colonel William Byrd, who was appointed auditor during Lord Culpepper's administration; Colonel Christopher Wormley, collector and naval officer of the lower district of the Potomac River, appointed while Lord Effingham was governor; Colonel Edward Hill, collector and naval officer of upper district of James River; Colonel Edmund Jennings, collector and naval officer of York River—these two being appointed in Lord Effingham's time; Colonel Daniel Parke, collector and naval officer of the lower district of James River, and escheator between York and Rappahannock Rivers; Colonel Charles Scarburgh, collector and naval officer on the Eastern Shore, and Mr. John Lightfoot, who had lately arrived in the country—these last four appointed while Sir Edmund Andros was governor.
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

Here he was on the beach of North Carolina, and not one of his shipmates was left to take care of him.
— from The Strife of the Sea by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

‘The whole must rest with the persons chiefly concerned, and no one ought to interfere or influence them in either direction.’
— from That Stick by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Without having succeeded in permanently Romanizing it, they gave it a solidity which enabled the Byzantine emperors, after the later Hellenizing of the Eastern Roman Empire, to advance farther and farther into the interior and toward the east, accompanying the victorious advance of Christianity: in Cappadocia, the home of Greek monastic life in the East, there was firmly established in Cæsarea, in the 6th century, a new outpost of Greek civilization.
— from Hellenism in Asia Minor by Karl Dieterich

With the lymphatics may be classified, for convenience, a number of organs called ductless or blood glands.
— from A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

Harriman System This purchase by the Union Pacific of a controlling interest in the stock of the Southern Pacific, made the latter a partner in a railroad system of about 18,500 miles, stretching from Omaha, Kansas City, and New Orleans on the east, to Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland on the west, and, by means of the Morgan Steamship Line, reaching New York.
— from Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific by Stuart Daggett