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Badges: on the dexter a rose gules, seeded or, barbed vert; on the sinister a portcullis or.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
First, there is the ruin of the upper circles of industry and commerce: "To make it possible for liberty definitely to disintegrate and ruin Gentile society, industry must be placed on a speculative basis."
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous
"I'm wandering in the right direction, anyhow," retorted Gwendolyn, stoutly.
— from The Poor Little Rich Girl by Eleanor Gates
He paused, and after a few moments resumed: "If you find you were deceived and romance gets stale, you will find me waiting.
— from Partners of the Out-Trail by Harold Bindloss
I said, 'as he was a worthy subject, so he was happy in a great prince, who could discern and reward good service.'
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous
“I doubt whether sacrifices ever do any real good,” said Frederick F. Frew.
— from Lotta Schmidt, and Other Stories by Anthony Trollope
The exercises that can be performed upon this apparatus are various and attractive; some of them comparatively easy, the more advanced very difficult, and requiring great strength and skill in their execution.
— from The Boy's Own Book of Indoor Games and Recreations A Popular Encyclopædia for Boys by Gordon Stables
As Dr. Archdall Reid graphically states it, “Only the germs are marriageable; and, as we have just seen, in the great majority of animals and plants they observe the degrees of consanguinity very strictly, and do not unite except with members of another cell-community, and then only to found a new colony of cells, an offspring.”
— from Embryology: The Beginnings of Life by Gerald R. (Gerald Rowley) Leighton
After three hours of skirmishing, deliberation, and reconnoitering, General Sullivan determined to divide his force, turn the enemy's left, and attack simultaneously in front and flank.
— from The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan's Campaign Against the Western Indians With an Introduction, Copious Historical Notes, and Maps of the Battle-field of Newtown and Groveland Ambuscade by John Leonard Hardenbergh
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