Though she could not have known it then, the single tune that he knew was to be a kind of theme song playing itself most unexpectedly through her Emberon experience.
— from Nan Sherwood's Summer Holidays by Annie Roe Carr

The different parts of a lion are much used; the head, either erased or couped, the face cabossed, the [pg 46] paws, borne either singly or in twos and threes, and lastly, we find the tail represented in various postures.
— from Peeps at Heraldry by Phoebe Allen

At this time the Spanish Court was completely subservient to France, which was hostile to the United States; and the Spaniards would not carry out the treaty they had made until they had exhausted every device of delay and evasion.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 by Theodore Roosevelt