In actual practice, the cross carried before an archbishop is an ordinary one with one transverse piece, but the heraldic archiepiscopal cross is always represented as a double cross, i.e. having two transverse pieces one above the other.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

See Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents (Cleveland reissue), for instances of cannibalism among the North American Indians.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

He was no great painstaker in person, yet died very rich; and, as Dr. Clerke says, was of a very great judgment, but hath writ nothing to leave his name to posterity.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Their sense of smell was extraordinarily fine; they could distinguish individual differences as readily as a dog can, and they went about the tending of the llamas, who lived among the rocks above and came to the wall for food and shelter, with ease and confidence.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

If we were able also plausibly to base upon the purposes of nature, which physical Teleology presents to us in such rich abundance, a determinate concept of an intelligent World-Cause, then the existence [Dasein] of this Being would not be a thing of faith.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

That is to say, men of respectable reputation and a decent company were congratulating on her good fortune Mlle. de Marille, a young person of beauty, wit and virtue, who is to be favoured with becoming the wife of M. R.—an unhealthy dotard, repulsive, dishonest, and mad, but rich: she has seen him for the third time to-day, when signing the contract.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Juliet went into her room, and a dark curtain bid her bright window.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Guglielmo, the Second, King of Sicily, had (as the Sicilians pretend) two children, a son called Ruggieri and a daughter called Costanza.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

See Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents (Cleveland reissue).
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

A mutual attachment resulted, and a daughter called Cecile-Renee was born of their intimacy.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Harris ( op. cit. :19) characterized S. v. austini as differing from S. v. rigidus in having brightly rufous legs (Ochraceous-Orange) in S. v. rigidus and a dorsal coloration resulting from a mixture of shiny black and silver (Ochraceous-Orange mixed with black in S. v. rigidus ).
— from Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of Some North American Rodents by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall

At least a lad belonging to an old Ennerdale family, the Bowmans of Mireside, was killed by falling from this rock at a date closely corresponding to that indicated in the poem.
— from Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England by W. P. (Walter Parry) Haskett Smith

We look over the mystic ramparts and are dimly conscious that "the souls mounting up to God Went by her like thin flames."
— from The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers

In about ten minutes the carriage rolled away, and Dolly came back to the parlor with a touch of new color on her cheek, and a dying-out spark of fire in her eye; and though her spirits did not seem to have failed her, she was certainly a trifle moved by something.
— from Vagabondia 1884 by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The place is located but little more than a mile from the city of Dover, where Mr. Rollins goes for post-office and other business accommodations, so that in the summer time he is regarded as a Dover citizen.
— from Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men by Various

An ominous remark and a dreary comment on the forty years' war against the Inquisition.
— from Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1609-15) by John Lothrop Motley

Their sense of smell was extraordinarily fine; they could distinguish individual differences as readily as a dog can, and they went about the tending of llamas, who lived among the rocks above and came to the wall for food and shelter, with ease and confidence.
— from The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

And he had entered into this adventure with enthusiasm, had seen their life as romantic and adventurous, deliberately closing his eyes to the brutality and squalor of it.
— from Old Mole Being the Surprising Adventures in England of Herbert Jocelyn Beenham, M.A., Sometime Sixth-Form Master at Thrigsby Grammar School in the County of Lancaster by Gilbert Cannan