Thus, while the vulture of sedition Feeds in the bosom of such great commanders, Sleeping neglection doth betray to loss The conquest of our scarce cold conqueror, That ever-living man of memory, Henry the Fifth.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"Sleep'st thou, companion dear, what sleep can close Thy eye-lids?" —"Paradise Lost," v. 673.
— from The Iliad by Homer

There are many things also about which we should be diligent even though they brought no Pleasure; as seeing, remembering, knowing, possessing the various Excellences; and the fact that Pleasures do follow on these naturally makes no difference, because we should certainly choose them even though no Pleasure resulted from them.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

I told her that she could call the egg the cradle of life.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Seax, 287 Seccombe, 272 Seckau, chapter of, 309 Second shield, 104 ; son, difference mark, 488 Seeded, 275 ; or, 269 Sefton, Lord, crest, 247 Segrave, arms, 486 ; John, seal, 417 , 480 Segreant, 102 , 223 , 416 Seize-Quartiers, 618 - 622 Sejant, 214 Selim III., Sultan, 592 Semé, 89 , 101 , 153 , 155 ; de-lis, 89 , 101 Serjeants-at-Arms, 45 ; insignia of, 586 Serpent, 257 Service badge, 12 Service Cross, Conspicuous, those entitled to, insignia of, 567 , 584 Seton, 166 , 427 , 447 ; of Mounie, 215 ; Capt. Robert, 446 ; church of, 409 Setvans, Sir Robert de, 55 Seventh son, 488 Sewell, arms, 260 Seymour, arms, 239 ; crest, 240 ; augmentation, 597 ; Jane, marriage, 597 Shaftesbury, Earl of, 206 Shakefork, 108 , 126 Shakerley, Bart., 214 Shakespeare, arms, 285 Shamrock, 267 Shape of shield, 61 Sharpe, grant to, 577 Shearer, arms, 298 Sheaves, 265 Sheep, 211 Sheepshanks, 212 Sheffield, town of, supporters, 429 Sheldon, Dame Margaret, arms, 575 Sheldrake, 246 Sherard, Lord, supporters, 437 Shetland ponies as supporters, 437 Shield, 60 , 104 ; of peace, 446 ; colour of is termed, 70 , 250 ; divided by, 97 ; encircled by, 58 ; earliest shape, 62 ; ground of, 69 ; of gules, 73 ; hatching of, 76 ; in Scotland, 66 ; made of, 64 ; no ordinary on, 101 ; pageant, 63 ; shape of, 61 , 62 Shiffner, 512 ; arms, 114 Ship, 294 ; ornaments and devices, 9 Shirley, 134 Shogune, 13 Shoveller, 246 Shrewsbury, 39 ; arms, 193 ; Earl of, 541 , 586 ; Earl of, quartering, 70 ; Earls of, crest, 341 ; Earls of Talbot, 175 ; Earl of Talbot, crest, 183 Shrimps, 256 Shuttle, 290 Shuttleworth, arms, 290 Sicily, 84 ; Jerusalem, Duke of Anjou, René, 318 Sidney, crest, 217 Siebmacher, 224 , 320 , 558 Sigismund, Emperor, 234 Silesia, 74 ; arms, 224 Sillifant, crest, 259 Silver, 70 , 77 , 90 ; ingots of, 292 ; use of, 70 Sinclair, Baron, arms, 557 ; Patrick, 502 Sirr, arms of, 124 Sissinks, arms, 229 Sixth son, 488 Skeen, arms, 197 Skeet, 261 Skeleton, 166 Skull, 171 Slack, crest, 258 Sledge, 456 Slipped, 265 , 267 , 269 ; leaved, 269 Slips, 265 Smallshaw, arms, 270 Smert, John, 28 ,
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

But if the Spanish Captains chance to exceed this Commission, and rob and plunder at Discretion, the Sufferers are allowed to complain, and exhibit a Process in their Court, and after great Expence of Suit, Delay of Time, and other Inconveniencies, obtain a Decree in their Favour, but then when the Ship and Cargo comes to be claim’d, with Costs of Suit, they find, to their Sorrow, that it has been previously condemn’d, and the Plunder divided among the Crew; the Commander that made the Capture, who alone is responsible, is found to be a poor raskally Fellow, not worth a Groat, and, no doubt, is plac’d in that Station for the like Purposes.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Indeed, the disguise was so complete that the next time Sir Charles came to enjoy himself with us, I made Frank dress up in the same manner and pretend to be asleep in bed with me, and it was only when I could not restrain a burst of laughter at his consternation that Sir Charles discovered the trick we had played him.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

Did he think she could continue to exist if she never got any sleep?
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

[731] There was no appeal from a definitive sentence, for the reason that it was not made known to the culprit before the auto in {263} which it was pronounced, but all interlocutory sentences and intermediate proceedings were subject to appeal, and the Supreme Council came to exercise minute supervision over every act of the tribunals even earlier than we have seen was the case in Spain.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea

The real planet moved upon a smaller circle called the “epicycle” whose center was the moving point representing the imaginary planet.
— from Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Florence M. (Florence Marie) Grimm

In 1828, the brig Owyhee , Captain Demenses, and the schooner Cowrey , Captain Thompson, entered and remained nearly a year in the Columbia River, trading with the Indians.
— from A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by W. H. (William Henry) Gray

She waited until she could control the emotion in her voice.
— from The Girl From His Town by Marie Van Vorst

No sooner was this known to the natives than they destroyed the works, and so carefully concealed the entrance, that even to the present day it is unknown.
— from The Mines and its Wonders by William Henry Giles Kingston

Here in the seventeenth century came the early French, and in 1680 a trading-post was established by Daniel du Lhut, afterwards becoming a Hudson Bay Company Station.
— from America, Volume 2 (of 6) by Joel Cook

During the century which had elapsed since Cambyses' conquest the Egyptians had rebelled more than once (most persistently about 460), calling in the sea-lords to their help on each occasion.
— from The Ancient East by D. G. (David George) Hogarth

The Grand Trunk, beginning at Chicago and running through Michigan to Sarma; crossing at Niagara Falls and feeding the Lackawanna and Erie to New York; running to Boston through Vermont, etc., and also to Montreal; and the Alden line of steamers carrying cattle to England, as a healthy competition with our pooling trunk lines east from Chicago, is of enormous value to Chicago and all the shippers, cattle-dealers, grain-raises, farmers, and merchants of half a dozen States in the Northwest.
— from Fifty Years of Public Service Personal Recollections of Shelby M. Cullom, Senior United States Senator from Illinois by Shelby M. (Shelby Moore) Cullom

Always she had been a little interested in him, a little afraid, sometimes venturing an innocent audacity, out of sheer curiosity concerning the effect on him.
— from Between Friends by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers