But George explained that, according to Euclid, a plane can touch a sphere only at one point, and that person only who stands at that point, with respect to the centre of the earth, will stand upright.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

A field per chevron (Fig. 52) is often met with, and the division line in this case (like the enclosing lines of a real chevron) is subject to the usual partition lines, but how one is to determine the differentiation between per chevron engrailed and per chevron invecked I am uncertain, but think the points should be upwards for engrailed.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The distinction between bailees for reward and others is Chief Justice Popham's; the latter qualification (exercising a public calling) was also English, as has partly appeared already, and as will be explained further on.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

For they tell that Cycnus, in grief for his beloved Phaëthon, while he sings and soothes his woeful love with music amid the shady sisterhood of poplar boughs, drew over him the soft plumage of white old age, and left earth and passed crying through the sky.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

I cannot lern that the Indians have any Simples Sovereign Specifics in the cure of this disease; indeed I doubt verry much whether any of them have any means of effecting a perfect cure.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I cannot learn that the Indians have any simples which are sovereign specifics in the cure of this disease; and indeed I doubt very much wheter any of them have any means of effecting a perfect cure.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

1.3, et al.; participation, communion, 1 Co. 10.16, et al.; aid, relief, He.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

[‘ befly ’] beflēon 2 (w. a.) to flee from, flee, escape, avoid , Ps ; CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Further, that Henry had been in the habit of wearing, when riding back in the evening, a purple cloak over his hunting-suit, a fact well known, I felt sure, to the assassins, who, unseen and in perfect safety, could fire at the exact moment when the cloak obscured the feather, and could then make their escape, secured by the stout wall of box from immediate pursuit.
— from In Kings' Byways by Stanley John Weyman

The costume of these ladies was extremely elegant and picturesque; confirming an opinion which I had often expressed, that the Greek dress, if carefully arranged, and judiciously chosen as to colours, must be one of the most becoming and effective in the world.
— from The City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Miss (Julia) Pardoe

After a while his language became so hyperbolical and his gesticulations so violent that Henry, being tired of so extravagant a performance, called out to him, "I say, Buchan, if your gate was as high as your style ( stile ), and you were to happen to fall, you would most certainly break your neck!"
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXIX., October, 1852 by Various

When Government at the Revolution, instead of being as formerly representative 290 of Episcopacy and Popery, became representative of Episcopacy and Presbytery, Cameronianism broke off, on the plea that the governing power ought to be representative of Presbytery only, and that it was apostate because it was not; and the political influence of the body has been ever since lost to the Protestant cause.
— from Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Hugh Miller

How could the Army claim that it was operating efficiently when a shortage existed and potentially capable persons were being ignored?
— from Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor

A thorough gentleman, his nature was as open as the day, which you could readily see for yourself by one glance into his truthful face, and clear blue eyes, although perhaps concealed partly by that slight upper-crust or veneer of egotism and affectation, which generally hides the better qualities of young men on first entering into life, and just released from their “mother’s apron string” and the trammels of home and school.
— from Caught in a Trap by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson