The desire to gratify the vanity of illustrious patrons rendered the mythical traditions attached to Armory more difficult to explode than in the cases of those other sciences in which no one has a personal interest in Page x {x} upholding the wrong; but a study of the scientific works of bygone days, and the comparison, for example, of a sixteenth or seventeenth century medical book with a similar work of the present day, will show that all scientific knowledge during past centuries was a curious conglomeration of unquestionable fact, interwoven with and partly obscured by a vast amount of false information, which now can either be dismissed as utter rubbish or controverted and disproved on the score of being plausible untruth.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Streets had been widened, properly paved and lighted, trees had been planted, squares laid out, elevated structures demolished and underground roads built to replace them.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The Father, who by this time had pretty well composed himself, burst out again in Tears upon hearing that Name to which he had been so long disused, and upon receiving this Instance of an unparallel'd Fidelity from one who he thought had several Years since given herself up to the Possession of another.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

récompenser , dédommager; accorder une récompense.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

“We do also, unfortunately,” replied my father; “for indeed I had rather have been for ever ignorant than have discovered so much depravity and ingratitude in one I valued so highly.”
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The armorial bearings of the deceased are usually represented on brasses, and also personal or professional devices.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

Time is better spent reading, digesting, and using, rather than on stupid technical retrieval work.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

As the place was explored without the assistance of a compass, or any of the means necessary for defining its geographical position, there could not but prevail much doubt and uncertainty respecting it.
— from Travels in the interior of Brazil with notices on its climate, agriculture, commerce, population, mines, manners, and customs: and a particular account of the gold and diamond districts. by John Mawe

He knew that the arrogant tone assumed by England, would unite France as one man, in determined and undying resistance.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIV, May 1852, Vol. IV by Various

Lord Broghill, he says— "Having free access to the King, by mingling apologies for what he had done with promises of what he would do, and utterly renouncing all those principles as to the Church or State (as he might with a good conscience do) which made men unfit for trust, made himself so acceptable to his Majesty that he heard him willingly, because he made all things easy to be done and compassed; and gave such assurances to the bedchamber men, to help them to good fortunes in Ireland, which they had reason to despair of in England, that he wanted not their testimony upon all occasions, nor their defence and vindication when anything was reflected upon to his disadvantage or reproach."
— from Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Craik, Henry, Sir

Any interruption annihilates this impression: he is roused out of his waking dream, and unhappily restored to his senses.
— from Elements of Criticism, Volume III. by Kames, Henry Home, Lord

'I approved of his idea,' said Bradley, with his uneasy look wandering to the doll, and unconsciously resting there longer than it had rested on Lizzie, 'both because your brother ought naturally to be the originator of any such scheme, and because I hoped to be able to promote it.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

From delicacy to her grief he laid not aside his dark and unfestive robes, but, renewing the perfumes on his raven locks, and arranging his tunic in its most becoming folds, he sought the chamber of the Neapolitan.
— from The Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Who shall explain the apprehensiveness which came unbidden, causing known certainties to be forgotten because of the disquieting questionings which demanded an unanswerable reply.
— from The Lever: A Novel by William Dana Orcutt

While he did not exclude religion from the college, morning prayers being held every day, attendance upon religious services was not obligatory.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders by John Lord