The everlasting guide went on— “Near him, this kneeling woman who weeps is his spouse, Diane de Poitiers, Countess de Breze, Duchess de Valentinois, born in 1499, died in 1566, and to the left, the one with the child is the Holy Virgin.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

V. be courageous &c. adj.; dare, venture, make bold; face danger, front danger, affront danger, confront danger, brave danger, defy danger, despise danger, mock danger; look in the face; look full in the face, look boldly in the face, look danger in the face; face; meet, meet in front; brave, beard; defy &c. 715. take courage, muster courage, summon up courage, pluck up courage; nerve oneself, take heart; take heart, pluck up heart of grace; hold up one's head, screw one's courage to the sticking place; come up to scratch; stick to one's guns, standfire[obs3], stand against; bear up, bear up against; hold out &c. (persevere) 604a. put a bold face upon; show a bold front, present a bold front; show fight; face the music.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Reptiles of Ceylon described by Dr. Davy, Introd . lizards, iguana, 271 .
— from Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

Even into adult life, therefore, the cells of the animal probably contain chromatin derived by direct descent from each of its parents.
— from The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by H. W. (Herbert William) Conn

The last three Christmastides had been spent at Northmoor, where it had been needful to conform to the habits of the household, which impressed Ida and her mother as grand and conferring distinction, but decidedly dull and religious.
— from That Stick by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Charlotte de Bavière), Duchesse d'Orléans .
— from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

Heathcote waited to see Sir William Spencer leave the hotel in the same fly, accompanied to the carriage door by Dr. Danvers.
— from Wyllard's Weird: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

God preserve me from hearing a cause debated between Don Diego and him! .
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

The population of these islands has been carefully described by Dumont d’Urville in an account of the voyage which he made in command of the Astrolabe , during the years 1826, 1827, 1828, and 1829.
— from The Human Race by Louis Figuier

[71] 58 Here we have more than a suggestion of the origin of some of the early songs of the Vedas, for these seven storm-spirits are represented by the Marūts of the Hindūs—“the shakers of the earth”—who dash through the heavens in chariots drawn by dappled deer.
— from Persian Literature, Ancient and Modern by Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Armstrong) Reed

The conventional pastoralism that veils the identity of the shepherd and shepherdess is scarcely more than a pretence, for at the end of the manuscript we find blazoned the arms of the royal pair, with the inscription: Icy sont les armes, dessoubz ceste couronne, Du bergier dessus dit et de la bergeronne.
— from Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg

If this should be again attempted, there is another curious coincidence between sounds and colours, discovered by Dr. Darwin of Shrewsbury, and explained in a paper on what he calls Ocular Spectra, in the Philosophical Transactions, Vol. LXXVI.
— from The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. by Erasmus Darwin