It equally admits of no doubt that the use of a crown or coronet was by no means exclusive to a sovereign, but whilst our knowledge is somewhat curtailed as to the exact relation in which great overlords and nobles stood to their sovereign, it is difficult to draw with any certainty or exactitude definitive conclusions of the symbolism a crown or coronet conveyed.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Then, covering him again with her own weapon, she went a few steps closer and threw the empty rifle at his feet.
— from The Eyes of the World by Harold Bell Wright

We had some conversation as to the East Retford question.
— from A Political Diary, 1828-1830, Volume II by Ellenborough, Edward Law, Earl of

She came again three Thursday evenings running, till at last he consented.
— from The Oxonian in Thelemarken, volume 1 (of 2) or, Notes of travel in south-western Norway in the summers of 1856 and 1857. With glances at the legendary lore of that district. by Frederick Metcalfe

It seems clear also that the earliest Roman art, the decoration of temples with painted terra-cotta ornaments, was Etruscan in origin.
— from The Grandeur That Was Rome by J. C. (John Clarke) Stobart

A little later, Bowen's settlement was moved, by Governor King's orders, down the river to Sullivan's Cove and the two establishments really became one, Colonel Collins retaining for it the name of Hobart, and Bowen with his officials returned to Sydney.*
— from The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant by Ida Lee

All that sense conveys, all that the eye reports, is simply the melting of the one substance in the presence and vicinity of the other.
— from Mental Philosophy: Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will by Joseph Haven