Had heraldry, which is and has always been a matter of pride, formed a part of their distinctive life we should find it still existing.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
“ Flash ” is sometimes exchangeable with “fancy.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten
"I have come with Caddy," said I, "because Caddy justly thinks she ought not to have a secret from her mother and fancies I shall encourage and aid her (though I am sure I don't know how) in imparting one."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
He spake, and with a plunge wrapped him about with the restless wave; and round him the dark water foamed in seething eddies and dashed against the hollow ship as it moved through the sea.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius
Discomfort, without any fear, is similarly expressed: thus, one day I went out of doors, just at the time when this same dog knew that her dinner would be brought.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin
For us was builded by a power divine— So great the faults it stands encumbered with: The which, my Memmius, later on, for thee We will clear up.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus
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— from The Online World by Odd De Presno
The simplest epical form is seen emerging out of lyrical literature when the artist prolongs and broods upon himself as the centre of an epical event and this form progresses till the centre of emotional gravity is equidistant from the artist himself and from others.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
They should, then, prepare for the unknown future by husbanding their ammunition and by substituting for it some easily renewable substance.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
And whereas David mentions the word flesh , “to thee shall all flesh come” (Ps. 65:2); this seems to have a particular regard to our bodily wants and sufferings (as we are flesh and blood), such as hunger, cold, nakedness, etc.; and should, at the same time, put us in mind of our own vileness and corruption, which is frequently in Scripture expressed by the word flesh .
— from True Christianity A Treatise on Sincere Repentence, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc. by Johann Arndt
For similar instances, where the scribes write into for in , see Einenkel, Streifzüge durch die Mittelengl.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
A nature like his required some vent for itself, some excitement to relieve the pressure of dull farm drudgery, and this was at once his purest and noblest excitement.
— from Robert Burns by John Campbell Shairp
Professor F—— is showing engineering genius in getting its house built.
— from A Journal from Japan: A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist by Marie Carmichael Stopes
If an animal be killed it does not decrease the number of that species, for it still exists, although in a different form.
— from Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1894, pages 159-350 by Lucien M. (Lucien McShan) Turner
To prevent the conversation from flagging, I said, "Eliza, dear, what are you making?" She frowned hard at me, shook her head slightly, and asked Miss Sakers about the special preacher for Epiphany Sunday.
— from Eliza by Barry Pain
It turned out that she had to sleep on the floor in someone else’s house like a fugitive from Messina, and the mouse-trap came in very handy.
— from Castellinaria, and Other Sicilian Diversions by Henry Festing Jones
God forbid I should ever say of Trevethlan!
— from Trevethlan: A Cornish Story. Volume 3 (of 3) by William Davy Watson
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