Loves, Graces, and Virtues, I call not on you; So shy, grave, and distant, ye shed not a tear: But come, all ye offspring of Folly so true, And flowers let us cull for Maria's cold bier.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

"Namely, a shield equally divided in fess, the upper and greater part of ruby, also with a fess of pearl, the under part of the field of the shield of emerald, therein a panther of silver, rampant"); that is, "Per fess gules and vert, in chief a fess argent, in base a panther rampant of the last."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

[Pg 685] Mr. Galton, in his work on English Men of Science, [613] has given a very interesting collation of cases showing individual variations in the type of memory, where it is strong.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

I’ve got a very interesting case on just now.
— from Penelope: A Comedy in Three Acts by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

I’ve stood off because I didn’t want to interfere with your studies, but maybe now, since you’ve got a vacation, I can come over once in a while and get acquainted.”
— from The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

So far as temporance regards the maintenance of health, no man adhered to its precepts with more fidelity, but he esteemed some species of connection with the other sex as venial, which mankind in general are vehement in condemning.
— from Ormond; Or, The Secret Witness. Volume 2 (of 3) by Charles Brockden Brown

Owing to this extra heating, the gases and vapours are expanded, diffused, and commingled, and do not rob the interior of the converting chamber of any heat on entering it, so that the heat inside the converting chamber is kept constant, and can operate to further expand and diffuse the gases and vapours in contact with the blue lead inside the chamber.
— from Pigments, Paint and Painting: A practical book for practical men by George Terry

But every effort should be made to get someone off to Greece, a very important country and far too long neglected.
— from The Light of Divine Guidance (Volume 1) by Effendi Shoghi

8vo. Contains full description of indoor and outdoor games and valuable information concerning embroidery, sewing, and all other occupations and accomplishments for girls.
— from The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various

The specific gravity of this ore is to water as 6 to 1; in its form of cristallization it resembles [Pg 252] the garnet, and varies in colour from a pearl-white to yellow and reddish; it is found in several parts of Saxony and Bohemia.
— from Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

Besides these a cadet corps of five hundred [411] young men armed with bows and spears, two battalions with firearms, and four larger battalions of eight hundred and seventy-five men each, drilled in rifle-practice, are relied on to aid the Gendarmerie and Vanguard in case of danger.
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams

The successive governors appointed varied in character, it is true, but several of them were liberal minded, public spirited men who gave to the colony far better administration that it had been accustomed to.
— from Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by Trumbull White

This process is here recommended to be used " in connection with the ordinary exercises of etymological and syntactical parsing,"—exercises, which, in Wells's Grammar, are generally, and very improperly, commingled; and if, to these, may be profitably conjoined either his present or his former scheme of analysis, it were well, had he somewhere put them together and shown how.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown