Never pass your plate with the knife or fork upon it, and when you pass your cup, put the spoon in the saucer.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

But after I got the idea that you were keeping me out there to see if I could get the idea—it would be too humiliating for a wall of glass to keep one from understanding.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

"Loys" was the signature of the kings of France until the time of Louis XIII.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

On this fact being clearly ascertained, we all yielded to the painful belief that delirium had come upon him in the night and that, allured by some imaginary object or pursued by some imaginary horror, he had strayed away in that worse than helpless state; all of us, that is to say, but Mr. Skimpole, who repeatedly suggested, in his usual easy light style, that it had occurred to our young friend that he was not a safe inmate, having a bad kind of fever upon him, and that he had with great natural politeness taken himself off.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The various kinds of fur used in armory may be readily distinguished, with the sole exception of vair ( argent and azure ), which presents the appearance of a row of small upright shields alternating with a similar row reversed.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Their union with Great Britain is the slightest kind of federal union; but not a strictly equal federation, the mother country retaining to itself the powers of a federal government, though reduced in practice to their very narrowest limits.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

“Here, you,” said Baldwin to McMurdo, “you can stand below at the door and see that the road is kept open for us.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

The effect of certain kinds of food upon the human system is very marked, even apart from the notorious effects of the drinks made from the vegetative world.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

So that, as clear as is the summer's sun, King Pepin's title, and Hugh Capet's claim, King Lewis his satisfaction, all appear To hold in right and tide of the female; So do the kings of France unto this day, Howbeit they would hold up this Salique law To bar your Highness claiming from the female; And rather choose to hide them in a net Than amply to imbar their crooked tides Usurp'd from you and your progenitors.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

O, ten times faster Venus' pigeons fly To seal love's bonds new made than they are wont To keep obliged faith unforfeited!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And it also besides struck me that while the incoming boys would undoubtedly enjoy them city frostings, them which had already marched under them and was now in the bread-line must be kind of fed up with it.
— from Believe You Me! by Nina Wilcox Putnam

Was it her business to placate her mate, and, by exercising the cunning of the weak, to keep out from under his heel?
— from The Precipice: A Novel by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

We shall not do Mr. Edmund Quincy the wrong of picking out in advance all the plums in his volume, leaving to the reader only the less savory mixture that held them together,—a kind of filling unavoidable in books of this kind, and too apt to be what boys at boarding-school call stick-jaw , but of which there is no more than could not be helped here, and that light and palatable.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

He had not much to say, for he was shriven not long before, because the Kings of Fraunce use alwaies to confesse themselves when they touch those that be sick of the King's evill, which he never failed to do once a weeke.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

She spoke no word save to the cat, admonishing him to mend his manners and keep out from under foot, while she hurried to the tea canister, the bread box, the sugar bowl, and the china closet.
— from The Man of the Desert by Grace Livingston Hill

To build one battleship of the best and most advanced type a year would barely keep our fleet up to its present force.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

A parish church in London is dedicated to St. Pancras, in whose name kings of France used to confirm their treaties.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

Why, I know one fellow under thirty who has got every electric car-line in the city tied to the tips of his fingers.
— from Ann Boyd: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

Well, sir; it wasn't but a matter of days before I could sense they moved in to stay for good, and this not being my apartment, but my mother-in-law's apartment, my wife kind of frowned upon this a little bit.
— from Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission