Little would be gained by a long list of instances of such differences, because the most careful and systematic investigations clearly show that in early times no definite rules whatever existed as to the assumption of differences, which largely depended upon the pleasure of the bearer, and no system can be deduced which can be used to decide that the appearance of any given difference or kind of difference meant a given set of circumstances.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

I never did repent for doing good, Nor shall not now; for in companions That do converse and waste the time together, Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love, There must be needs a like proportion Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit, Which makes me think that this Antonio, Being the bosom lover of my lord, Must needs be like my lord.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

They may be known by the fact that they have no direct relation to this world, and would have no meaning whatever except as faith shows us another world, "an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

But end we here—the night demands repose, Be deck'd the couch!
— from The Odyssey by Homer

y los trapiches del pueblo de San Antonio de Tena, a tiempo que [1] ve las rocas de Chinchas y de Canoas coronadas por una selva de pinos y nogales, de robles y laureles.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

It signifies literally, however, the place where it showers, or comes down, and lodges upon something animate, and has no definite reference to fire ( atsi′la ) or rain ( agăskă , “it is raining”); degaʻlâskû′ , “they are showering down and lodging upon him.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

I have never been more struck by the good sense and the practical judgment of the Americans than in the ingenious devices by which they elude the numberless difficulties resulting from their Federal Constitution.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Nobody believes that no difficulties remain.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

In November, Dole reported to Smith that Salomon's retrograde movement had caused about fifteen hundred or two thousand additional refugees to flee into Kansas.
— from The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Annie Heloise Abel

At this meeting some $5,000 was subscribed, and the canvass next day resulted in large additions to the above.
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

We hear much of the rights of woman, and their wrongs; but this is certain, that in a family, as in a State, there can be no divided rule—no equality.
— from Valerie by Frederick Marryat

Her mother died soon after she got there, and the next day Rose gave birth to a seven-months child, a miserable little skeleton, thin enough to make anybody shudder, and which seemed to be suffering continually, to judge from the painful manner in which it moved its poor little hands, which were as thin as a crab’s legs; but it lived for all that.
— from Original Short Stories — Volume 04 by Guy de Maupassant

The power of embracing comprehensive views, and of detecting diversified relations, must be confined to a few, because such objects require the greatest exertion of a superior mind, yet they must ever be mainly dependant on the labours of another class of naturalists: those who analyze the properties of species, and separate with critical judgment, and nice discrimination, resemblances from affinities.
— from Zoological Illustrations, Second Series, Volume 1 or, Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson

This was a far cry from mediation and recognition, nor did Russell [V2:pg 50] indicate either the proposed terms of an armistice or the exact steps to be taken by Europe in bringing it about and making it of value.
— from Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams

There are no defective rays in the white light of Sirius, Procyon, and others; but Sir David Brewster found in the spectrum of the orange-coloured light of ζ Herculis a defective band in the red space, and two or more in the blue; consequently, the orange colour of the star is owing to a want of blue rays; for flames in which certain rays are wanting take the colour of the predominating rays.
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville

“Not quite,” rejoined he, laughing; “though, I've no doubt, ready to raise a dollar that way if any one could be found in these wild parts a little richer than themselves;” with this, he commended me to a sound sleep, and the words were scarcely spoken ere I obeyed the summons.
— from Confessions Of Con Cregan, the Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever

It was the same with his company, with his non-commissioned officers, with his soldier servant, a notoriously drunken rascal, and with his quarters.
— from With Moore at Corunna by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty