The arms of the Burgh of Montrose afford an example of a single rose as the only charge, although other instances will be met with in the arms of Boscawen, Viscount Falmouth ["Ermine, a rose gules, barbed and seeded proper"], and of Nightingale, Bart.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

It may therefore be seen that there are reasons for expansion and reasons for contraction; and it is no small part of the statesman's skill to hit between them the mean that is most favourable to the preservation of the State.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

FAUST ( entering ) Ah, rogue!
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The clauses relating to Railways, as originally presented to Germany, were substantially modified in the final Treaty, and are now limited to a provision by which goods, coming from Allied territory to Germany, or in transit through Germany, shall receive the most favored treatment as regards rail freight rates, etc., applied to goods of the same kind carried on any German lines "under similar conditions of transport, for example, as regards length of route."
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

Before the last of the young sportsmen departed, Sir Harry Towers demanded and obtained an interview with Miss Alicia Audley in the oak library—an interview in which considerable emotion was displayed by the stalwart young fox-hunter; so much emotion, indeed, and of such a genuine and honest character, that Alicia fairly broke down as she told him she should forever esteem and respect him for his true and noble heart, but that he must never, never, unless he wished to cause her the most cruel distress, ask more from her than this esteem and respect.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Far away from Europe, at Raratonga, in the Pacific, when a child’s tooth was extracted, the following prayer used to be recited: “ Big rat!
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

All the many forms, extinct and recent, descended from (A), make, as before remarked, one order; and this order, from the continued effects of extinction and divergence of character, has become divided into several sub-families and families, some of which are supposed to have perished at different periods, and some to have endured to the present day.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Thus, for example, a ridiculous face is an ugly or misshapen face, but one on which suffering has not marked."
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

But since she has breathed into you a soul, and implanted in you intelligence by means of which you now behold in memory many past events, though they are no longer before you: and further since your reasoning power discovers many future events and reveals them as it were to the eyes of your mind; and again your imagination sketches for you not only those present events which are going on under your eyes and allows you to judge and survey them, but also reveals to you things at a distance and many thousand stades 329 removed more clearly than what is going on at your feet and before your eyes, what need is there for such grief and resentment?
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

IV And with them eke, O Goddesse heavenly bright, ° Mirrour of grace and Majestie divine, 30 Great Lady of the greatest Isle, whose light Like Phoebus lampe ° throughout the world doth shine, Shed thy faire beames into my feeble eyne, And raise my thoughts, too humble and too vile, To thinke of that true glorious type of thine, ° 35 The argument of mine afflicted stile: ° The which to heare, vouchsafe, O dearest dred, ° a-while.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

I arranged it so that all the stock will be held in escrow for ten years and used as collateral for loans specially earmarked to finance expansion and R and D.
— from The Samurai Strategy by Thomas Hoover

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practises on others: in conversation we naturally diffuse our thoughts, and in writing we contract them; method is the excellence of writing, and unconstraint the grace of conversation.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson

The best possible drink is, of course, that which has the most power to fulfil the main office for which it is required; that is, the keeping the blood duly thin, for easy and ready flow.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, June 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

His income from those two resources alone, then, is about ten millions of dollars annually; but the remaining part of the produce of the mines, being twenty-six millions, might be counted on for effecting a revolution.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) by Thomas Jefferson

"Upon the road from Kilkenny to Grenaugh, in the vicinity of those beautiful lakes, at the entrance of those parks, to which, for extent and richness, neither England nor Scotland can probably offer any thing equal, we have seen other dwellings.
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

The directors as yet confined their views to the employment only of horses for the haulage of the coals, and of fixed engines and ropes where horse-power was not applicable.
— from Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles

Who were present, beyond the three officers named, has so far eluded all research, and the only variation in the accounts is found in a rare old book called Multa Paucis , which asserts that six Lodges, not four, were represented.
— from The Builders: A Story and Study of Masonry by Joseph Fort Newton

Groping about, I felt my revolver case and linen bag; then my hands encountered not the hay bed, soft and rounded, but a firm, extended and rather rough surface.
— from 'Neath Verdun, August-October, 1914 by Maurice Genevoix

“There are certain matters which this person has not made known,” he said, having first expressed a request that he might not be compelled to stand while he conversed.
— from The Wallet of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah