The arms of Lord Lurgan (granted or confirmed 1840) afford another instance of a chapeau of unusual colour, his crest being: "Upon a chapeau azure turned up ermine, a greyhound statant gules, collared or."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

In relation to him, as in relation to the Great Glib, I seem bound to infer that he was never staggered by an unexpected question, never affronted by a black sheep among the flock, in the shape of an inattentive listener, never silenced by some careless man capable of unconsciously cutting him short and starting another topic before he had half done with his own particular subject.
— from My Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Wilkie Collins

She further enjoins the divine crier to “clearly describe the marks by which Psyche may be recognised, that no one may excuse himself on the plea of ignorance, if he incurs the crime of unlawfully concealing her.”
— from A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times. by Henry Sampson

During the Civil War, he at various times gave pecuniary assistance to King Charles II., who at the Restoration created him Viscount Craven of Uffington, &c. He is said to have been privately married to Elizabeth, daughter of James I., the Queen of Bohemia.
— from The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day by John Camden Hotten

The nooks and corners of that region, albeit close to the brilliant centre of urban civilization, have an ill name, are picturesquely disreputable, and quite unrecognized by the good society of Brussels.
— from The Story of a Genius by Ossip Schubin

Under the present statute, as above noted and presented in the brief cited, the right of translation inheres in the author as author, conditioned only upon copyright having been obtained of his original work, but not conditioned upon that copyright remaining in him.
— from Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, conjointly with the Senate Committee on Patents, on H.R. 19853, to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright June 6, 7, 8, and 9, 1906. by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents

It will enable the company to judge how far it may be useful to extend the means of education, and of the probable results; as also the difficulties in which, for very many years, a continuation of unfavorable circumstances has involved the Five Nations.
— from Life of Joseph Brant—Thayendanegea (Vol. II) Including the Border Wars of the American Revolution and Sketches of the Indian Campaigns of Generals Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne; And Other Matters Connected with the Indian Relations of the United States and Great Britain, from the Peace of 1783 to the Indian Peace of 1795 by William L. (William Leete) Stone

"Come on," urged Claw, "Have another."
— from Snowdrift: A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

Was it the influence of the desert that made all these men cat-like in their movements, or was the servant consciously or unconsciously copying his master?
— from The Sheik: A Novel by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull