There are only three neuters in common use, cornū , horn , genū , knee , and verū , a spit .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The middle or ordinary Page 82 {82} size is known as Vair ; a smaller size as Menu-vair (whence our word "miniver"); the largest as Beffroi or Gros vair , a term which is used in armory when there are less than four rows.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

in the Pa. 1811, and was one of the storming party of Fort San Francisco, at the investment of Ciudad Rodrigo. A.D.C. to Sir Andrew Barnard at Salamanca, and in a similar capacity to Sir J. Kempt at Vittoria and subsequent battles.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

The stately Corporal, without moving, kept a vigilant and suspicious eye upon the new comer, muttering to Peter,—“Customer for you; rum customer too—by Gad!”
— from Eugene Aram — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

When Śrutaśarman saw that, he quickly sent other ten lords of the Vidyádharas, [ 456 ] chiefs of lord of hosts of lords of hosts of warriors, two called Dama and Niyama, who exactly resembled one another in appearance, two sons born to the Aśvins in the house of the lord of Ketumálá, and Vikrama and Sankrama, and Parákrama and Ákrama, and Sammardana and Mardana, and Pramardana and Vimardana, the eight similar sons of the Vasus born in the house of Makaranda.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

Fitzjocelyn politely apologized to Ellen for a second time stepping over her soapy deluge, and, as he opened the study door with a preliminary knock, a voice, as sharp and petulant as it was low, called out, 'Hollo!
— from Dynevor Terrace; Or, The Clue of Life — Volume 2 by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

“Oh,” answered Sleuth, throwing out his chest, “I’ve been keeping a vigilant and sleepless eye upon those parties.”
— from Boys of Oakdale Academy by Morgan Scott

And a little after: “In every just state, some part of the government is, or ought to be, imparted to the people, as in a kingdom, a voice and suffrage in making laws; and sometimes also of levying of arms, (if the charge be great, and the prince forced to borrow help of his subjects,) the matter rightly may be propounded to a parliament, that the tax may seem to have proceeded from themselves.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume

“The only way in which it is possible for him to do that is to keep a very active supervision over his property.
— from The Sanitary Evolution of London by Henry (Henry Lorenzo) Jephson

I bade Miss Dorothy Stacy come in when I heard her knock and voice; and she seemed to bring with her, in her innocent strength and youth and pinkness, a very fair and harmonious counterpart of the cowslips and the cuckoos.
— from An American Girl in London by Sara Jeannette Duncan

Shall it come leaping and brandishing knives, a veiled army springing up from the shadows, or shall it come by stealth, boat by boat, now upon this quarter, now upon that, outposts seeking to flank us, deadly shots fired we know not where?
— from The House Under the Sea: A Romance by Max Pemberton