As may be presumed from its likeness to our word border, the bordure is simply a border round the shield.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

And perhaps the perfect music, which I have had the luck to hear again, after two or three months of privation, although going nightly to the Opera, has simply had the effect, which I recognised long ago—I mean that of producing lively thoughts on what is already in the heart.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Let another tend this weakling for me; I am quite willing, I approve his charity, but I myself have no gift for such a task; I could never teach the art of living to one who needs all his strength to keep himself alive.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Like a man again —It is a regular article of Indian belief, which has its parallels in European fairy lore, that one who has eaten the food of the spirit people or supernaturals can not afterward return to his own people and live, unless at once, and sometimes for a long time, put under a rigid course of treatment intended to efface the longing for the spirit food and thus to restore his complete human nature.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

On the other hand, each man has an enormous number of articles passing through his hands during his life time, of which he enjoys a temporary possession, and which he keeps in trust for a time.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

If he could not have made Pope him whom he wished, at least the one whom he did not wish would not have been elected.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Amongst the dry and sweet pastries from the small oven which appeared at the issue de table , the first to be noticed were those made of almonds, nuts, &c., and such choice morsels, which were very expensive; then came the cream or cheesecakes, the petits choux , made of butter and eggs; the échaudés , of which the people were very fond, and St. Louis even allowed the bakers to cook them on Sundays and feast days for the poor; wafers, which are older than the thirteenth century; and lastly the oublies , which, under the names of nieules, esterets , and supplications , gave rise to such an extensive trade that a corporation was established in Paris, called the oublayeurs, oublayers, or oublieux , whose statutes directed that none should be admitted to exercise the trade unless he was able to make in one day 500 large oublies , 300 supplications , and 200 esterets .
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

You who have tails just whisk the flies off without thinking about it, and you can't tell what a torment it is to have them settle upon you and sting and sting, and have nothing in the world to lash them off with.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Lycurgus, to one who asked why he had not instituted a democracy.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Many of the wolves that looked thee over when thou wast brought to the Council first are old too, and the young wolves believe, as Shere Khan has taught them, that a man-cub has no place with the Pack.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

“Oh, we’ll tell them to look the other way.”
— from Forging the Blades: A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion by Bertram Mitford

A long time of wandering followed, with ceaseless inquiry, and alternating disappointment and fresh expectation; but every day something occurred that served just to keep the life in her, and at last she reached the county-town, where she was taken to a place of shelter.
— from Salted with Fire by George MacDonald

There are diversities of Mens Names in Lutes ; but the Chief Name we most esteem, is Laux Maler , ever written with Text Letters : Two of which Lutes I have seen ( Pittifull Old , Batter’d , Crack’d Things ) valued at 100 l. a piece (p. 48).
— from Springtime and Other Essays by Darwin, Francis, Sir

Denys read the objection like the observant warrior he was, seized them and mumbled them.
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

Such is the plan of the little treatise, the literary texture of which is plain and homely, rather than rich, learned, or rhetorical.
— from The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time by David Masson

The clothing of the men is a cloak, and over this the skin of a cow, like the one which Cabeza de Vaca and Dorantes brought, which Your Lordship saw; they wear caps 305 on their heads; in summer they wear shoes made of painted or colored skin, and high buskins in winter.
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

This view of property rights has caused much trouble and some bloodshed, two persons having been killed for presuming to assert exclusive rights in large tracts of wilderness property.
— from Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

At last, tired out with the struggle, she left me pretending to be perfectly satisfied with what she had done.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 29: Florence to Trieste by Giacomo Casanova

The inmates were old sailors, with countenances well browned by tropical suns, or bleached by the tempests of the ocean; here one hobbling on a wooden leg, there one with an empty sleeve, and occasionally one with only one eye.
— from Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood Being a Concise Description of the Chief Places of Interest in the Metropolis, and the Best Modes of Obtaining Access to Them: with Information Relating to Railways, Omnibuses, Steamers, &c. by Anonymous