Probably, apart from these, the earliest mark of cadency which is to be met with in heraldry is the label (Fig. 689) used to indicate the eldest son, and this mark of difference dates back far beyond any other regularised methods applicable to "younger" sons.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Thence to Dancre’s, the painter’s, and there saw my picture of Greenwich, finished to my very good content, though this manner of distemper do make the figures not so pleasing as in oyle.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Moonlight talk drifted easily into talk about artificial methods of dispelling darkness.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Juvenis Medicinae operam dans doctoris filiam deperibat, &c. 5587 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Gob, he’d let you pour all manner of drink down his throat till the Lord would call him before you’d ever see the froth of his pint.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The monarch, one day discoursing as usual with Cortes, spoke to him as follows: "Malinche!
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Artistic authorities may shout themselves hoarse, but the fashion having been set in Mayfair will be inevitably followed in Suburbia, and we are doubtless again at the beginning of the cycle of that curious manifestation of domestic decorative art which was current in the early part of the nineteenth century.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

In my opinion, Dr. Duchenne has greatly advanced the subject by his treatment of it.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

my own dear, darling home!”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

No, when I think of it, I oftener fancied all this was a dream.” “Not Menzies vs. Kilblane, at any rate,” said the clerk, with his hand on a bulky Process, for he was a cheery soul and knew the mind of Daniel Dyce.
— from Bud: A Novel by Neil Munro

Memoir of Daniel Drayton, Congressional Library.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various

Spectrum Analysis , name given to the method of determining the composition of a body by means of the spectrum of light which it gives forth or passes through it, founded on the principle that a substance powerfully absorbs exactly the rays it radiates, and every substance has its own absorbing powers; or it may be defined the method of distinguishing different kinds of matter by their properties in relation to light.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

Moreover, on due deliberation we do not feel grateful to a person who benefits us by pure accident.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

The quéene was committed to the duchesses of Lancaster & Glocester, to the countesses of Huntington and Stafford, to the marchionesse of Dublin daughter to the lord Coucie, to the ladies of Namure, Poinings, and others: which with a noble traine of men and horsses, conueied hir to Calis: for there were twelue charrets full of ladies & gentlewomen.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (12 of 12) Richard the Second, the Second Sonne to Edward Prince of Wales by Raphael Holinshed

“Be good enough, sir, to order the rest of your men on deck,” Dave directed, and the German officer shouted the order in his own tongue.
— from Dave Darrin and the German Submarines Or, Making a Clean-up of the Hun Sea Monsters by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

This radical measure is best, or rather least injurious to lilies and irises, when their flowering time is over—July and August—and moving or dividing does not disturb them.
— from How the Garden Grew by Maud Maryon

The martyrdom of Diogo de la Asumção appears to have finally decided him against Christianity.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz