It is very usually asserted that until a comparatively recent date crests were not hereditary, but were assumed, discarded, and changed at pleasure.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

20, Noah was planting a vineyard, the Devil (Asmodeus) came and proposed to join him in the work.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Then Sir Launcelot stooped down, and cut a piece away of that cloth, and then it fared under him as the earth had quaked a little; therewithal he feared.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

228 Bufo the picture of a proud but grudging patron of letters which follows was first meant for Bubb Doddington, a courtier and patron of letters at the time the poem was written.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

Pa, do, I beg and pray, get leave for the rest of the day, and come and pass it with me!'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

With clashing falchions now the chiefs had closed, But each brave Ajax heard, and interposed; Nor longer Hector with his Trojans stood, But left their slain companion in his blood: His arms Automedon divests, and cries, "Accept, Patroclus, this mean sacrifice: Thus have I soothed my griefs, and thus have paid, Poor as it is, some offering to thy shade.
— from The Iliad by Homer

He invariably began by opening the door a crack and peering in to see if the prince was there, or if he had escaped; then he would creep softly up to the arm-chair, sometimes making Muishkin jump by his sudden appearance.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This systematic work of observing and correlating every instant of the supposed activities of the accused (once the situation of the crime is defined as certainly as possible), is as instructive as it is promising of success.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Now as ethics was concerned exclusively with right and wrong doing, and could accurately point out the limits of his action to whoever was resolved to do no wrong; politics, on the contrary, the theory of legislation, is exclusively concerned with the suffering of wrong, and would never trouble itself with wrong-doing at all if it were not on account of its ever-necessary correlative, the suffering of wrong, which it always keeps in view as the enemy it opposes.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

And right as Arthur did at Christmas, he did at Candlemas, and pulled out the sword easily, whereof the barons were sore aggrieved and put it off in delay till the high feast of Easter.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

A hundred bushels of coal, a day, are consumed at present.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson

Lady C. said she had read it all deliberately and critically, and pronounced it capital, with a dash under it.
— from Marriage by Susan Ferrier

Yet a normal, wholesome religion, bearing as its fruit better living and all-round human development, and cherished and propagated by sane and sober-minded people, is rarely known.
— from Six Thousand Country Churches by Charles Otis Gill

Mrs. Fitzroy desired a copy, and permits me to send it to you, provided that you return it whenever you have an opportunity.
— from Blue-Stocking Hall, (Vol. 2 of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

And at equal intervals Maxime's cigar was revivified, setting a red blur on the darkness, and casting a pale rosy flash on Renée's face.
— from The Rush for the Spoil (La Curée): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

The sun goes down as calmly, and perhaps 70 More beautifully, than he did on Rome
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

But it is in single syllables or words or letters that they most abound in errors, frequently omitting them without the mark of a lacuna , or any defect; now they omit single letters, when the second word begins with the same letter as that with which the first ends; at times in the first word, as "victori_a_ sacrari," for "victoria_s_ sacrari" (III. 18); at times in the second word, as "ad _e_os" for "ad _d_eos" (I. 11) now they add single letters as "vitae ejus" for "vit_a_ ejus" (I. 9), or "a_u_diturus" for "aditurus" (XV. 36); or voluntarily add a syllable, that the termination of one word may correspond to the commencement of another, as "Stratonicidi_ve_ _ve_neri" for "Stratonicidi Veneri" (III. 63), or repeat syllables or words (what is called "dittography"), as "Cujus adversa pravitati ipsius , prospera ad fortunam ipsius referebat" (XIV. 38).
— from Tacitus and Bracciolini. The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by John Wilson Ross

Denton, Adam, chief at Patani.
— from Diary of Richard Cocks, Volume 2 Cape-Merchant in the English Factory in Japan, 1615-1622, with Correspondence by Richard Cocks