Their credulous successors incorporated these little witticisms in the rolls of arms they collected, and one can only hope that in the distant future the charming drawings of Mr. E. T. Reed which in recent years have appeared in Punch may not be used in like manner.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Thaddy, however, was curious enough, and it was a hard struggle between duty and inclination to keep Woodhouse quiet until he was decently put away in bed, and had slept upon the copious dose of meat extract Thaddy considered advisable.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

La forma del pico no le permite cazar de otro modo en tierra ni en el agua.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

But when they seek to honour by natural interpretation most vain fables or deeds of men, even the acutest men are so perplexed that we are compelled to grieve for their folly also.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

To the artificial regulation of society, which leaves all who depend on manual exertion to an immutable degradation, must be ascribed these multitudinous governments, unknown to the rest of mankind, which, in spite of such dislocation, maintain the bonds of mutual sympathies.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

For the present it decrees one most essential thing: that forthwith a 'Parisian Militia' shall be enrolled.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

72. ) History, looking over the Girondin Memoirs, anxious to disentangle the truth of them from the hysterics, finds these days of March, especially this Sunday the Tenth of March, play a great part.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

past bearing; not to be borne, not to be endured; more than flesh and blood can bear; enough to drive one mad, enough to provoke a saint, enough to make a parson swear, enough to gag a maggot.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Where more desirable or more essential than in the first magistrate of a nation?
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

These painful reflections were interrupted, for a moment, by a note from Valancourt, written in evident distraction of mind, entreating, that she would permit him to see her on the approaching evening, instead of the following morning; a request, which occasioned her so much agitation, that she was unable to answer it.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

In the days when our Lord dwelt on middle earth, there were certain men amongst the Jews, called Pharisees, who were deemed exceedingly holy persons.
— from Lady Sybil's Choice: A Tale of the Crusades by Emily Sarah Holt

Yet Coudé and Turenne will always be considered as captains of a very different order from the invincible Lewis; and we must own that many statesmen who have committed 6 great faults, appear to us to be deserving of more esteem than the faultless Temple.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 4 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

It is therefore possible that the effective action of the sun is in some small degree different, on the different planets, whether due to the action of the ether, to the similarity or dissimilarity of material elements, to the temperature of the different bodies, or to all combined, is a question yet to be considered.
— from Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Thomas Bassnett

On the first intelligence of Edgars death, Alfere, Duke of Mercia, expelled the new orders of monks from all the monasteries which lay within his jurisdiction
— from The History of England, Volume I From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 by David Hume

"Is not what you demand of me equivalent to an abdication?" "No; it is nothing more than retiring to the position held by the princes before domestic dissensions enabled Louis XIV.
— from Waldfried: A Novel by Berthold Auerbach

The initiates passed through certain symbolic ceremonies from one degree of mystic enlightenment to another till the highest was attained.
— from Stories of Old Greece and Rome by Emilie K. (Emilie Kip) Baker

Scarcely, however, had a day elapsed after the departure of my envoy to the Tartar, then the royal Yong-Li left the city in anger."
— from The War Tiger Or, Adventures and Wonderful Fortunes of the Young Sea Chief and His Lad Chow: A Tale of the Conquest of China by William Dalton

It was now near sunset, and, in despite of my endeavours to the contrary, I was becoming somewhat anxious, as a gloom was already settling over the swamp, when, to my joy, I found myself upon the bayou or slough, whose illusory appearance I have noted.
— from The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in The South-West Containing the Whole of The Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Streaks of Squatter Life; and Far-Western Scenes; In a Series of Forty-Two Humorous Southern and Western Sketches, Descriptive of Incidents and Character by John S. Robb

"There was, of course, a great deal of medical evidence to go through.
— from The Old Man in the Corner by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness