A personal requirement of blind obedience to the law of being, would tend to obscure the order of Science, unless that requirement should express the claims [10] of the divine Principle.
— from Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy

In the year 1811 the Prince Regent, on behalf of the King, issued an order to regulate the colours of the Army, and, amongst other things, sanctioned the custom that had sprung up of inscribing the names of victories on the flags.
— from The Flags of the World: Their History, Blazonry, and Associations by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme

An exchange of equipment makes poor riders of both of them.
— from The Round-Up: A Romance of Arizona; Novelized from Edmund Day's Melodrama by Marion Mills Miller

But I could not prevail upon my colleagues to put such a saving clause on the minutes, though they agreed to the possibility of the new patentees redeeming on behalf of the public.
— from The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford by Walter Scott

On the morning of the tedious procession of carriages going forth to form the escort, the Prince rode out beforehand over the limits, with Bouverot and Albano,--all three as being the only people in the land who were independent and uninterested in the festival.
— from Titan: A Romance. v. 2 (of 2) by Jean Paul

On the 3rd Crown Prince Rupert of Bavaria ordered the XXIV Reserve Corps and the 25th Reserve Division to be taken from the Sixth Army, west of Lille ; and this was followed by an order on the 4th to withdraw all the troops of the Guard Corps available from their positions, and for their sector of the front to be taken over by the IV Corps at Arras .
— from Ypres 1914: An Official Account Published by Order of the German General Staff by Otto Schwink

Paul remained on board of the Sylph, for his evidence was needed in Westport in getting out the warrant for the arrest of the ruffians.
— from Stem to Stern; or, building the boat by Oliver Optic

In the superior maxillary division the following foci may be found: (1) The infra-orbital, corresponding to the emergence of the nerve of that name from its bony canal; (2) the malar, on the most prominent portion of the malar bone; (3) a vague and indeterminate focus, somewhere on the line of the gums of the upper jaw; (4) the superior labial, a vague and not often important focus; (5) the palatine point, rarely observed, but occasionally the seat of intolerable pain.
— from Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis Edmund Anstie

Periphrasis, as handled by the didactic poets, is perhaps ridiculous only because of the lack of poetic power which it indicates; for there are many agreeable ways of not naming what it is desired to suggest.
— from Decadence, and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas by Remy de Gourmont

Yet it seemed as if the government had the situation in a firm grasp, though an ominous incident was that the Pavlovsk regiment on being ordered to fire upon the mob, mutinied and had to be ordered to their quarters.
— from History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by Richard Joseph Beamish