He and his sons being nobilitate, the King gave him the aforesaid arms (argent, three escutcheons gules) to intimate that the father and the two sons had been luckily the three shields of Scotland, and gave them as much land in the Carse of Gowrie as a falcon did fly over without lighting, which having flown a great way, she lighted on a stone there called the Falcon Stone to this day.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

We described our negotiations with the great Motecusuma, mentioning his power and riches, of which the things he had given us to present to his majesty, consisting in the sun of gold and moon of silver, and the casque of gold dust, as it is found in the mines, as also the other articles of solid and manufactured gold, were small proofs.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

That fear does not perform an analogous office in cases of good fortune is due to the fact that we are instinctively more inclined to hope than to fear; just as our eyes turn of themselves to light in preference to darkness.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

Then thirty-two young persons came into the hall; sixteen of them arrayed in cloth of gold, and of these eight were young nymphs such as the ancients described Diana’s attendants; the other eight were a king, a queen, two wardens of the castle, two knights, and two archers.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

45 Note 42 ( return ) [ His death and character are faithfully delineated by Ammianus, (xxi. 14, 15, 16;) and we are authorized to despise and detest the foolish calumny of Gregory, (Orat. iii.
— 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

“Yes, madam, if you are certain of giving me an exact description of the expression of her features.” We exchanged a glance, and no more was said about it.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

n 1 money collected from payments, dues, taxes, etc. 2 items collected or gathered for one’s hobby.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He took me to his cave, or grotto, which is like those of the sacred priests in Lebanon.
— from The Pillar of Fire; or, Israel in Bondage by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

Military rank under the crown of Great Britain was attained with much longer probation, and by much more toilsome services, sixty years ago than at the present time.
— from The Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna by James Fenimore Cooper

**** According to Herodotus, the casing of granite extended to half the height.
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 2 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

The Babe was a cynical old gentleman of twenty years of age, who played the banjo charmingly.
— from The Babe, B.A. Being the Uneventful History of a Young Gentleman at Cambridge University by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Farewell, ye nymphs, whom sober care of gain Snatch'd in your cradles from the god of Love: She render'd all his boasted arrows vain; And all his gifts did he in spite remove.
— from The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside by Mark Akenside

I spent long hours, by day and night, studying the camp enclosure, the coming and going of the men on fatigue duty, the manner and uniform of the sentinels, and the change of guard.
— from Captivity and Escape by Jean Martin

African Slave-Trade: Message from the President ... transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, together with the correspondence of George W. Slacum, relative to the African slave trade.
— from The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870 by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

But where, and how, can this unfortunate creature of God, this multiple source of income and profit for men, further pay and expend his strength, for becoming a still further source of income in favor of the propertied men?
— from The Impending Crisis Conditions Resulting from the Concentration of Wealth in the United States by Basil A. Bouroff

It's a case of 'Greek meets Greek'.
— from A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Angela Brazil

[Pg 13] place dim in the child's mind—from the troop southwest of town perhaps—came a charge of galloping horsemen, riding down on Ward.
— from A Certain Rich Man by William Allen White