In England the Herald's College, or College of Arms, is a royal corporation the chief business [313] of which is to grant armorial bearings, or coats of arms, and to trace and preserve genealogies.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

—The only case which has come under notice would appear to be the crest of Campbell of Aberuchill.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The guilt of the Manichaean heresy was esteemed of such magnitude, that it could be expiated only by the death of the offender; and the same capital punishment was inflicted on the Audians, or Quartodecimans, 49 who should dare to perpetrate the atrocious crime of celebrating on an improper day the festival of Easter.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

A case of collision on a hazy morning off the Spanish coast—you may remember.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Never take more than your share—whether of the road in driving a car, of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

At nine o'clock the next morning his servant came in with a cup of chocolate on a tray, and opened the shutters.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

We can make a list of sources of happiness apparently recommended by an overwhelming consensus of current opinion: as health, wealth, friendship and family affections, fame and social position, power, interesting and congenial occupation and amusement,—including the gratification, in some form, of the love of knowledge, and of those refined, partly sensual, partly emotional, susceptibilities which we call æsthetic.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

And we have it upon the authority of this same reliable and truthful writer (Sir Godfrey Higgins) that the author of the Hindoo Pantheon (Mr. Moor), after having announced his intention to publish it to the world, was visited and labored with by some of his devout Christian neighbors zealous "for the faith once delivered to the saints," who endeavored to dissuade him from publishing such facts to the world as he represented his book to contain, for fear it would have the effect to unsettle the faith of some of the weak brethren (some of the weak-kneed church members) in the soul-saving religion of Jesus Christ, by raising doubts in their minds as to the originality of the gospel story of the crucifixion of Christ, or at least of his having been crucified as a God for a sin-offering.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Attack , to carve, or commence operations; “ ATTACK that beef, and oblige!”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

These ponchos frequently display great brilliancy and variety; the color is often a snowy white, sometimes it is richly and fancifully embroidered; but the prevailing taste is for broad stripes of brilliant colors, such as orange, scarlet, blue, green, rose color, or combinations of all hues intermingled and diversified in every conceivable manner.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII, October 1851 by Various

In 1845, eight cases of croton oil and six cases of the seed were exported from Ceylon.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

All the baggage I carried was a package made up of the two clocks and a small thermometer made of a piece of old washboard, all three tied together, with no covering or case of any sort, the whole looking like one very complicated machine.
— from The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir

Ou is generally a proper diphthong, uniting the sound of close or curt o , and that of u as heard in bull ,—or u sounded as oo ; as in bound, found, sound, ounce, thou.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Hence they turn to Islām, or to what is possibly a degraded version of the Christian story, because these religions do not recognise caste, and hold out a promise to the Mahār of equality with his co-religionists, and in the case of Christianity of a recompense in the world to come for the sufferings which he has to endure in this one.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

The last principle is the coining, or choice of, adjectives in y and ing ; of adverbs in ly , when, in many instances, adjectives and adverbs already existed formed on the same stem.
— from Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller

The colonization of Canada, or, as it was formerly called, New France, was undertaken by French merchants engaged in the fur trade, close on whose steps followed a host of devoted missionaries who found, in the forests of this new and attractive country, ample scope for the exercise of their religious enthusiasm.
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

The first case of cholera occurred a few years later, on the 15th of July, 1855; and during the months in which it prevailed, nearly the same number (to be more precise, 4826) of the inhabitants of the capital were carried off.
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

And in this manner we carry our calculation on as far as we have occasion, either for pages, forms, or sheets.
— from The American Printer: A Manual of Typography Containing practical directions for managing all departments of a printing office, as well as complete instructions for apprentices; with several useful tables, numerous schemes for imposing forms in every variety, hints to authors, etc. by Thomas MacKellar

As persons on the outside may often approach the door or depart from it, beside the building, so as to turn aside as they enter or leave the door, and therefore touch its jamb, but, on the inside, will in almost every case approach the door, or depart from it in the direct line of the entrance (people generally walking forward when they enter a hall, court, or chamber of any kind, and being forced to do so when they enter a passage), it is evident that the bevelling may be very slight on the inside, but should be large on the outside, so that the plan of the aperture should become as at b , Fig.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 1 (of 3) by John Ruskin