Potent , and its less common variant Counter Potent , are usually ranked in British heraldic works as separate furs.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

You see, I am playing a most pitiful and ugly role in your eyes, and I even admit it—that is the utmost I can do for your sake.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

The above rule does not prescribe an unceasing regress in one kind of phenomena.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Carrying the exposition to its final consequences, she provoked a useful revolution in the ideas then current.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1899 Volume LIV, No. 5, March 1899 by Various

Pure and undefiled religion is to do good; and it follows, very plainly, that if God be the Author and Friend of society, then, the recognition of him must enforce all social duty, and enlightened piety must give its whole strength to public order.
— from McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

With the breaking-up of the Empire, new races, new centers of power, a universal religion in the room of national religions, and a new type of culture and civilization, were introduced.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

The story is epic in its magnitude, in its calm, steady progress and unhurrying rhythm, in its vast and intimate humanity.
— from Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

Quinine is, of course, the remedy that should first be tried; and, as the paroxysms are usually regular in their recurrence, I prefer to give the drug after the plan which is, I think, incontestably the best in ordinary ague— i. e. , to administer one large dose (five to twenty grains) about an hour before the time when the attack is expected.
— from Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis Edmund Anstie

Logic, as we saw, played an unassuming rôle in this matter, and the indolence of man always inclined to easy accommodation and compromise.
— from Life's Basis and Life's Ideal: The Fundamentals of a New Philosophy of Life by Rudolf Eucken

They jumped about and played as usual, rejoicing in their freedom and the unusual aspect of things.
— from Historical Miniatures by August Strindberg

Morality therefore being so essential to, and so important a part of pure and undefiled Religion, it is one great recommendation of the Christian Religion, that it contains a system of perfect and finished morals.
— from Twenty-four Discourses On Some of the Important and Interesting Truths, Duties, and Institutions, of the Gospel, and the General Excellency of the Christian Religion; Calculated for the People of God of Every Communion, Particularly for the Benefit of Pious Families, and the Instruction of All in the Things Which Concern Their Salvation by Nathan Perkins

Animal food, although not containing sulphates, yet, from the oxidation of the sulphur-holding albumen, produces a urine rich in sulphate.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth