THE DUENNA (with a low bow): I was bid ask you where a certain lady Could see her valiant cousin--but in secret.
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

It represents the arms of the celebrated Lansquenet Captain Sebastian Schärtlin (Schertel) von Burtenbach ["Gules, a lion sejant affronté erect, double-queued, holding in its dexter paw a key argent and in its sinister a fleur-de-lis"].
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

[1] MINUTAL MATIANUM PUT IN A SAUCE PAN OIL, BROTH FINELY CHOPPED LEEKS, CORIANDER, SMALL TID-BITS, COOKED PORK SHOULDER, CUT INTO LONG STRIPS INCLUDING THE SKIN, HAVE EVERYTHING EQUALLY HALF DONE.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

He takes his stand on the spot where, according to tradition, Virginia, more than seventy years ago, was seized by the pandar of Appius, and he begins his story. Virginia Fragments of a Lay Sung in the Forum on the Day Whereon Lucius Sextius Sextinus Lateranus and Caius Licinius Calvus Stolo Were Elected Tribunes of the Commons the Fifth Time, in the Year of the City CCCLXXXII.
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

They make use, instead of bread, of a certain white compound, like coriander seeds; I have tasted of it; the taste is sweet and a little flat.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Los cabellos le caían sobre la espalda.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Improved C. Requisite C. Pilfering C. Malling C. Laycod C. Shaking C. Sounding C. Hand-filling C. Bobbing C. Battled C. Insuperable C. Chiveted C. Burly C. Agreeable C. Fumbling C. Seditious C. Formidable C. Topsyturvying C. Wardian C. Profitable C. Raging C. Protective C. Notable C. Piled up C. Twinkling C. Musculous C. Filled up C. Able C. Subsidiary C. Manly C. Algoristical C. Satiric C. Idle C. Odoriferous C. Repercussive C. Membrous C. Pranked C. Convulsive C. Strong C. Jocund C. Restorative C. Twin C.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

And when at last she had spread the cloth and loaded it with hot corn bread, fried chickens, bacon, buttermilk, coffee, and all manner of country luxuries, Col. Sellers modified his harangue and for a moment throttled it down to the orthodox pitch for a blessing, and then instantly burst forth again as from a parenthesis and clattered on with might and main till every stomach in the party was laden with all it could carry.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

They were put in the loft on some hay, and Chalange, Le Chevalier's servant, who took them their food, always found them sleeping or playing cards.
— from The House of the Combrays by G. Lenotre

—Willis Alston, jr., Isaac Anderson, David Bard, Joseph Barker, Burwell Bassett, George M. Bedinger, Silas Betton, William W. Bibb, Phanuel Bishop, John Blake, jr., Thomas Blount, James M. Broom, Robert Brown, John Boyle, William A. Burwell, William Butler, George W. Campbell, John Campbell, Martin Chittenden, John Claiborne, Joseph Clay, Matthew Clay, George Clinton, jr., Frederick Conrad, Orchard Cook, Leonard Covington, Samuel W. Dana, Ezra Darby, John Davenport, jr., John Dawson, Theodore Dwight, Peter Early, James Elliot, Caleb Ellis, Ebenezer Elmer, William Ely, John W. Eppes, William Findlay, James Fisk, John Fowler, James M. Garnett, Charles Goldsborough, Peterson Goodwyn, Edwin Gray, Andrew Gregg, Silas Halsey, John Hamilton, Seth Hastings, James Holland, David Holmes, David Hough, John G. Jackson, Walter Jones, James Kelly, Thomas Kenan, John Lambert, Joseph Lewis, jr., Henry W. Livingston, Edward Lloyd, Matthew Lyon, Duncan McFarland, Patrick Magruder, Robert Marion, William McCreery, David Meriwether, Nicholas R. Moore, Thomas Moore, Jeremiah Morrow, John Morrow, Jonathan O. Mosely, Jeremiah Nelson, Roger Nelson, Thomas Newton, jr., Timothy Pitkin, jr., John Porter, John Pugh, Josiah Quincy, John Randolph, Thomas M. Randolph, John Rea of Pennsylvania, John Rhea of Tennessee, John Russell, Peter Sailly, Thomas Sammons, Martin G. Schuneman, Ebenezer Seaver, James Sloan, Dennis Smelt, John Smilie, John Smith, Samuel Smith, Richard Stanford, Joseph Stanton, William Stedman, Lewis B. Sturges, Samuel Taggart, Benjamin Tallmadge, Samuel Tenney, Philip R. Thompson, Thomas W. Thompson, Uri Tracy, Abram Trigg, Philip Van Cortlandt, Killian K. Van Rensselaer, Peleg Wadsworth, John Whitehill, Robert Whitehill, David R. Williams, Marmaduke Williams, Alexander Wilson, Joseph Winston, Richard Wynn, and Thomas Wynns.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

"You flatter like a courtier, Lieutenant Chester," she said, "and this is too grave a time for flattery."
— from In Hostile Red by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Then Bud began suddenly to improvise, and his voice rose valiantly that his words might carry their meaning to the ears of Johnny Jewel, who had stalked back across the corral and was striving now to catch the horse he had let go, while his one champion, little Curley, shooed the animal into a corner for him.
— from Skyrider by B. M. Bower

"I never said a word to him about you or anybody else," said Casper, looking Claus squarely in the eye.
— from The Haunted Mine by Harry Castlemon

An Alleged Parallel to Leviticus—a Carthaginian Law Concerning Sacrifices 342 The Text of the Carthaginian Law.
— from Archæology and the Bible by George A. (George Aaron) Barton

The ancient communistic land customs still flourish, together with the ineradicable belief that the land must be the property of everyone.
— from The New Spirit Third Edition by Havelock Ellis

Sitting in his high-backed chair, Luke Claridge seemed a part of its dignified severity.
— from The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 2 by Gilbert Parker

In the conversation Lord Clarendon said they were more solicitous to be on good terms with the United States than any other nation, and that the project had not yet been communicated even to France.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

The parish of Christ Church, Lambeth, chiefly supplied by the Lambeth company, had a death-rate from cholera in 1854 of only 0·43 per 1000 inhabitants; whereas the parish of St Saviour, supplied by the Southwark and Vauxhall company, had a death-rate of 2·27 per 1000.
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton