Except the label, which has been elsewhere referred to, the earliest marks of either cadency or illegitimacy for which accepted use can be found are the bend and the bordure; but the bend for the purpose of illegitimacy seems to be the earlier, and a bend superimposed over a shield remained a mark of illegitimate cadency until a comparatively late period.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

This solution, appearing the most probable one, was adopted as the right; the dog, creeping under a chair, coiled himself up to sleep, without more notice from anybody.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

As the croupier called out the colour and number, she pricked on the card with great care and regularity, and only ventured her money on the colours after the red or black had come up a certain number of times.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

But, as I told my Lord of Westmoreland, The time misord'red doth, in common sense, Crowd us and crush us to this monstrous form To hold our safety up.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

While there are some things which may be safely passed over in the examination of one who confesses himself to be "rusty," or but recently initiated, because they are details which require much study to acquire, and constant practice to retain, there are still other things of great importance which must be rigidly demanded, and with the knowledge of which the examiner cannot, under any circumstances, dispense.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Cheerfulness under adversity Chinese Chrysanthemum.
— from Language of Flowers by Kate Greenaway

Mr Fledgeby's evil star showing her the pepper-box on the chimneypiece, she climbed upon a chair, and got it down, and sprinkled all the plasters with a judicious hand.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Happily Thumbling did not meet with one blow at the cutting up and chopping; he got among the sausage-meat.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Some were covered up and concealed by plaster, in order to preserve them from iconoclastic violence.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

The French, for reasons already mentioned, can underwork, and consequently undersell the English manufactures of Great Britain, in every market in Europe.
— from Novanglus, and Massachusettensis or, Political Essays, Published in the Years 1774 and 1775, on the Principal Points of Controversy, between Great Britain and Her Colonies by Daniel Leonard

“Regarding my application for the licence, Herr Lieutenant?” “I regret,” said zu Pfeiffer coldly, using a cigar cutter, “that I am unable to grant you the licence you ask.”
— from Witch-Doctors by Charles Beadle

The foundation of her knowledge was really laid in the idleness of her grandmother’s house, where, as most of the other inmates were not reading people, she had uncontrolled use of a library full of books with frontispieces, which she used to climb upon a chair to take down.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Let the milk come to a boil, mix a teaspoonful of the milk with the egg, add sugar and butter, allow it to cook until a custard is formed, then pour over the sliced cabbage.
— from Civic League Cook Book by North Dakota) Civic League (Williston

Probably this verb voler had its origin in the professional slang of thieves, whence it has passed into common use, and, consequently into the phraseology of the law.
— from What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon

Let them go, since we cannot re-live them, Cannot undo and cannot atone; [16] God in his mercy receive, forgive them!
— from A Few More Verses by Susan Coolidge

Here, then, I would beg leave to ask whether any of you really believe that the life of a wicked person can, under any circumstances, be truly happy?
— from Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land by Thomas Reid

We will therefore express them in unambitious prose, only premising that before the barbarian had proceeded far in the chant, the song was caught up and continued by the warriors in the fleet of canoes, now paddling out of the mists behind, and by many infidels who watched its approach from the shore, and from an island crag, strongly fortified, that lay a little to the east of the city.
— from The Infidel; or, the Fall of Mexico. Vol. II. by Robert Montgomery Bird

But I am far from believing that they would not have come, under any circumstances, even had they been free from fear of personal consequences.
— from The Secrets of the Great City A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City by James Dabney McCabe

So day after day they journeyed on over the far-spreading park-like land, now coming upon a creek well supplied with water, now toiling over some rocky elevation where the stones were sun-baked and the vegetation parched, while at night they spread the piece of canvas they carried for a tent, hobbled the horses, and lay down to sleep or watch the stars with the constellations all upside down.
— from The Dingo Boys: The Squatters of Wallaby Range by George Manville Fenn