An interesting series of differences is met with upon the arms of Neville of Raby, which are: "Gules, a saltire argent," and which were differenced by a crescent "sable"; a martlet "gules"; a mullet "sable" and a mullet "azure"; a "fleur-de-lis"; a rose "gules"; a pellet, or annulet, "sable," this being the difference of Lord Latimer; and two interlaced annulets "azure," all borne on the centre point of the saltire.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The Roman Jupiter, who is so frequently confounded with the Greek Zeus, is identical with him only as being the head of the Olympic gods, and the presiding deity over Life, Light, and Aërial Phenomena.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

The work is a hasty and unrevised production of its author’s earlier days of literary labor; and, beyond the scenes already known, scarcely calculated to enhance his reputation.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

And from the bush there came the sound of little streams flowing, quickly, lightly, slipping between the smooth stones, gushing into ferny basins and out again; and there was the splashing of big drops on large leaves, and something else—what was it?—a faint stirring and shaking, the snapping of a twig and then such silence that it seemed some one was listening.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

My love, I might endure to be Deprived of Lakshmaṇ, life, and thee, But ne'er deny my promise, ne'er To Bráhmans break the oath I sware.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

May Heaven make the British senators the dispersers of light, liberty, and science, to the uttermost parts of the earth: then will be glory to God on the highest, on earth peace, and goodwill to men:—Glory, honour, peace, &c. to every soul of man that worketh good, to the Britons first, (because to them the Gospel is preached) and also to the nations.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

6, If notwithstanding all these Assistances, the Pain should still continue violent, and the Pulse is neither full nor hard, the grown Patient may take an Ounce of Syrup of Diacodium, or sixteen Drops of liquid Laudanum; and when neither of these are to be had, 111 an English Pint of boiling Water must be poured upon three or four Poppy-heads with their Seeds, but without the Leaves, and this Decoction is to be drank like Tea.
— from Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

Nay, perhaps, the very difficulties to be encountered, and the watery wastes to be traversed, even enhanced the desire these desperadoes felt in undertaking the venture; added also to this spirit of enterprise, and the prospect men behold in the sunny distance, of lovely lands, and scenes of enchantment in the bright islands they thought to find, there was in the breast of the Englishman at this period a rankling and deep-seated hatred of the Spaniard—then the stoutest soldier of the civilized world—a foe not only worthy in that day of the Englishman's sword, but who bore away from him the palm of soldiership, and, of whom, he felt in some sort jealous.
— from William Shakespeare as He Lived: An Historical Tale by Henry Curling

“Who will dare to say that in the time of civil war no person shall be deprived of life, liberty and property, without due [Pg 88] process of law?
— from The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt by David Miller DeWitt

For I have revell'd, when the sun was bright I' the summer sky, in dreams of living light And loveliness,—have left my very heart In climes of my imagining, apart From mine own home, with beings that have been Of mine own thought—what more could I have seen?
— from The Bells, and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

Heavy dew of late; last afternoon wind fresh from west-south-west; same this morning but light; geese and all game very difficult to be got at in this part of the country.
— from McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia by John McKinlay

He found me in a retirement I doat on, living like an antediluvian patriarch among my children and grandchildren, and tilling my soil.
— from The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson Compiled From Family Letters and Reminiscences by Sarah N. (Sarah Nicholas) Randolph

In 1665 or 1685 Daniel Mauclerc, Doctor of Law, living at Vitry le François, is the owner.
— from The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17. by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James