Sword, hold thy temper; heart, be wrathful still: Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

A roundle of more than one colour is described as a roundle "per pale," for example of gules and azure, or whatever it may be.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

In all these cases it is not the having merely undertaken the superior function, but the successful performance of it, that tests the qualifications; for which reason, as well as to prevent persons from engaging nominally in an occupation for the sake of the vote, it would be proper to require that the occupation should have been persevered in for some length of time (say three years).
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

They all abused him behind his back, which might probably proceed from envy; for by the women he was well received, and very particularly distinguished by them.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

At the first we had the sight but of two or three of them: afterwards appeared no less than six hundred, which, dividing themselves in two parts, prepared for encounter, in which many of them by meeting with their barks together were broken in pieces, many were turned over and drowned: they that closed, fought lustily and would not easily be parted, for the soldiers in the front showed a great deal of valour, entering one upon another, and killed all they could, for none were taken prisoners.
— from Lucian's True History by of Samosata Lucian

each, and so on, the charge being one farthing less per plate for each similarly painted plate.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Though the produce of his estate may be sufficient to maintain, and may, perhaps, actually maintain, more than a thousand people, yet, as those people pay for every thing which they get from him, as he gives scarce any thing to any body but in exchange for an equivalent, there is scarce anybody who considers himself as entirely dependent upon him, and his authority extends only over a few menial servants.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Their idea here is to reorganize them for popular propaganda for education, more schools, teaching adults, social service, etc.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

It is not quite clear whether the front seats of the theatre are meant, or, as I have taken it, more generally, of some public place for entertainment or meeting, some promenade or piazza.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Fashionable Colors are dark, rich, and full, such as grenat , narcarat , dark green, reddish brown, violet, and a reddish gray; while white, amber, purple, and pink predominate for evening dresses.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. IX.—February, 1851.—Vol. II. by Various

Professor Parker, for example, has described a supra-orbital in the embryo Hedgehog; a supratemporal also appears to be occasionally independent.
— from Mammalia by Frank E. (Frank Evers) Beddard

The church is a square, flat-roofed eastern-looking building, in the inside tastefully painted in imitation of panels of Cipollino marble; and on the neat pulpit is carved the symbol of the Scotch Church, the burning bush and its motto, nowhere surely more appropriate than in the place where the Christian faith has been subjected to the flames of pagan and papal persecution for eighteen hundred years, and has emerged purer and stronger.
— from Roman Mosaics; Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan

familiar mechanical analogies , (for example, the theories of light and of electricity,) or the exact quantitative ascertainment of the connexion of mechanical processes with other physical processes, for example, the results of thermodynamics.
— from Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach

He quoted the price paid for each, the price asked, the price offered, the price that had been paid five years ago.
— from Jill the Reckless by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

—White powd.—Diaphoretic, Sedative.— Uses: Pneumonia, puerperal fever, etc.— Dose: 8—24 grn. Potassium Arsenite Merck.—Pure.
— from Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica by Merck & Co.

Even as He promised His disciples that He would prepare a place for them, so is there a place prepared for each one of us.
— from What Jesus Taught by Osborne J. P. Widtsoe

In piano- playing, for example, I had to study my seat at the piano, the music on the rack, the letters of the keyboard, the position of my fingers, and the coordination of all these with one another.
— from The Nature of Goodness by George Herbert Palmer

Nor will they at any time hinder or prevent persons from exploring or searching for minerals, or other valuable productions, in any part of the territory hereby ceded to Her Majesty, as before mentioned.
— from The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto by Alexander Morris