Whilst the secrecy of the records of the College of Arms is so jealously preserved it is impossible to speak definitely at present, for an exact and comprehensive knowledge of exact and Page 461 {461} authoritative instances of fact is necessary before a decision can be definitely put forward.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

We kept on our lonely course through the "Big Cane" several miles, when we entered a clearing, known as "Sutton's Field."
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

And evermore a costly kiss The prelude to some brighter world.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

When those people feel sick at the stomach, instead of purging themselves, 109 they thrust an arrow down their throat for two palmos or more 110 and vomit [substance of a] green color mixed with blood, for they eat a certain kind of thistle.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

2 low-growing, woody herb of waste places used to treat children who have the skin eruptions also called kugangkugang .
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

For I imagine any one will easily grant that it would be impertinent to suppose the ideas of colours innate in a creature to whom God hath given sight, and a power to receive them by the eyes from external objects: and no less unreasonable would it be to attribute several truths to the impressions of nature, and innate characters, when we may observe in ourselves faculties fit to attain as easy and certain knowledge of them as if they were originally imprinted on the mind.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Against the dark wall a figure appears slowly, a fairy boy of eleven, a changeling, kidnapped, dressed in an Eton suit with glass shoes and a little bronze helmet, holding a book in his hand.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

A more elaborate and costly kind of {60} wall paper is that which is stamped and gilded, in emulation of stamped and gilded leather, which it resembles in effect and quality of surface.
— from Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society

Many of the best military minds were fighting on the Confederate side, and it is believed by several historians that only their great strategic ability and planning against larger military forces with better equipment and clothing kept the war from being concluded at a much earlier date.
— from Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia by Dorothy Margaret Torpey

Both Colonel Edson and Captain Kenneth D. Bailey, commanding the raider’s Company C, were awarded the Medal of Honor for their heroic and inspirational actions.
— from First Offensive: The Marine Campaign for Guadalcanal by Henry I. Shaw

In February a meeting of general mortgage bondholders elected a committee, known as the Bartol Committee, to prepare a plan more suited to their interests.
— from Railroad Reorganization by Stuart Daggett

[Footnote 2: The influence of Paracelsus, as of Vives and Campanella, is evident in the great educator, Amos Comenius (Komensky, 1592-1670), whose pansophical treatises appeared in 1637-68.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

Even a child knows better than to talk so recklessly.
— from Aunt Madge's Story by Sophie May

Not the Righteous, nor even Angels can know quite the full beauty of all the bonds that bind the sinner to his Saviour.
— from The Prodigal Returns by Lilian Staveley