On the 14th January 1725, His Majesty was further pleased by his Royal sign-manual, to erect, make, constitute, and ordain the then Bath King of Arms, Gloucester King of Arms, and principal Herald of the parts of Wales, and to direct letters patent to be made out and pass the Great Seal, empowering him to grant arms and crests to persons residing within the dominions of Wales, either jointly with Garter, or singly by himself, with the consent and at the pleasure of the Earl Marshal, or his deputy for the time being, and for Page 36 {36} the future that the office of Gloucester should be inseparably annexed, united, and perpetually consolidated with the office of Bath King of Arms, of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, and Gloucester King of Arms, and principal Herald of the parts of Wales .
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

This exclamation is quite common among the dramatists and is explained by Nares as derived from the Italian exclamation via!
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

lead and an ax in a thicket up the S. Fork three hundred yards distant from the point.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

"I was once very shy," said Sydney Smith, "but it was not long before I made two very useful discoveries; first, that all mankind were not solely employed in observing me; and next, that shamming was of no use; that the world was very clear-sighted, and soon estimated a man at his true value.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

No one knows what dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular opening.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

It is easy to prove how much the individual forming part of a crowd differs from the isolated individual, but it is less easy to discover the causes of this difference.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

"When the Creator [through intermediaries that were apparently animals] had finished treating this world of men, the good and the bad Gods were all mixed together promiscuously, and began disputing for the possession of this world.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Then: "I do forgive thee," he murmured, speaking with difficulty and veiling his eyes with his thin wrinkled lids, "but thou should'st have remembered I am your father.
— from Beggars on Horseback by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

The novice-master was annoyed at the Americans' incessant demand for the reason why of all things permitted, and the reason why not of all things prohibited; until at last Brother Walworth was named Brother Pourquoi.
— from Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott

(He had returned to the palace to collect more data for the Royal Book of Oz.)
— from The Royal Book of Oz In which the Scarecrow goes to search for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island by Ruth Plumly Thompson

Those pursed-out lips, so queerly different from the compressed lips of the normal motorist, and seeming, as elsewhere last night, to denote no more than pensive interest, had told me suddenly all that I needed to know about Pethel.
— from James Pethel by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

The driver stopped the horses, and, dismounting from the box, came around to the coach door.
— from Andy Grant's Pluck by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

The odds were that she was coming in only to sort the mail, and not even sitting down for that.
— from The Invaders by Murray Leinster

On the day following this meeting, I could contain myself no longer, and I made a careful toilet with the purpose of calling on Madame Sordeville; for I had noticed that she attached some importance to the costumes of her guests.
— from Frédérique, vol. 1 by Paul de Kock

The nation, delivered from the enemy within its gates, would bring its full power to bear upon the enemy that threatened its destruction from without.
— from Stand Up, Ye Dead by Norman Maclean