The position for a mark of difference is in the centre chief point, though it is not incorrect (and many such instances will be found) for it to be charged on a chevron or fess, in the centre point.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

I would have gone crazy many a day lately, Miss Oliver, dear, if I had not sat tight and repeated that to myself.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

When I ventured a few words of sympathy over his emaciated figure, my guru said gaily: "It has its good points; I am able now to get into some small ganjis (undershirts) that I haven't worn in years!" Listening to Master's jovial laugh, I remembered the words of St. Francis de Sales: "A saint that is sad is a sad saint!" 21-1: It is a mark of disrespect, in India, to smoke in the presence of one's elders and superiors. 21-2: The Oriental plane tree.. 21-3: Many Christian saints, including Therese Neumann (see chapter 39 ), are familiar with the metaphysical transfer of disease. 21-4: Christ said, just before he was led away to be crucified: "Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

The Medes once dwelt in it.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

9:—“When two nations quarrel they are bound to try in every possible way to arrange the quarrel by means of discussion: it is only when this is hopeless that they may declare war.”
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

With a river, lake, and coastwise commerce estimated at over two thousand millions of dollars per year; with a railway traffic of four to six thousand millions per year, and the annual domestic exchanges of the country running up to nearly ten thousand millions per year; with over two thousand millions of dollars invested in manufacturing, mechanical, and mining industry; with over five hundred millions of acres of land in actual occupancy, valued, with their appurtenances, at over seven thousand millions of dollars, and producing annually crops valued at over three thousand millions of dollars; with a realm which, if the density of Belgium's population were possible, would be vast enough to include all the present inhabitants of the world; and with equal rights guaranteed to even the poorest and humblest of our forty millions of people—we can, with a manly pride akin to that which distinguish'd the palmiest days of Rome, claim," &c., &c., &c.— Vice-President Colfax's Speech, July 4, 1870 .
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Your wish for me to stay is not a call of duty which I refuse to hearken to because it is against my own desires; it is a temptation that I must resist, lest the love of the creature should become like a mist in my soul shutting out the heavenly light.”
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

But when men and horses, cattle, camels, and dromedaries, have poached the spring into mud, it becomes loathsome to those who at first drank of it with rapture; and he who had the merit of discovering it, if he would preserve his reputation with the tribe, must display his talent by a fresh discovery of untasted fountains.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

"You see," he said, "I am a sort of Flying Dutchman—sailing the seas eternally, driven not by any sinister force but by my own delight in it."
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

The latest misuse of dream interpretation in our day still tries to discover in dreams the numbers which are going to be drawn in the
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Be assured, my adored mother, that he will love me one day, if it is only through our child, whom he begins quietly to love without himself perceiving it.
— from Monsieur de Camors — Volume 3 by Octave Feuillet

From the very nature of the anomalies, and specially from the scanty knowledge we possess concerning their mode of development, it is not possible to allocate them in all cases correctly, and moreover many of them might as well be placed in one group as in another.
— from Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden) Masters

We meandered about high-hedged, lane-like, tree-shaded roads, which would have reminded me of Devonshire if I had been there first.
— from The Retrospect by Ada Cambridge

Certain it is that this two thousand millions of dollars, invested in this species of property, all so concentrated that the mind can grasp it at once—this immense pecuniary interest—has its influence upon their minds.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

[10] Du Moncel states that MacGauley of Dublin independently invented the form of hammer break as now used.
— from Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by Fleming, J. A. (John Ambrose), Sir

So much was this true that whenever a military operation developed itself in favor of Germany, either in Galicia or in Rumania, we knew how to predict, a day or two ahead, that a sensational despatch from the Kaiser to the Empress would be published in the newspapers.
— from My Three Years in a German Prison by Henri Severin Beland

600 Beneath the perpetual changes of sensible phenomena there is, then, an unchangeable subject, which yet is neither the Deity, nor ideas, nor the soul of man, which exists as the means and occasion of the manifestation of Divine Intelligence in the organization of the world.
— from Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

Valsesia, memory of Dolcino in, iii. 120 .
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

Even we Had stayed to meet our death in ignorance, But that one Druse, a single faithful Druse, Made known the horror to the Nuncio.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning