His arms a field argent, on a cheveron azure, three leopards’ heads gold, their tongues gules; two angels supporters, on the crest a talbot: his epitaph, “Armigeri scutum nihil a modo fert sibi tutum, Reddidit immolutum morti generale tributum, Spiritus exutum se gaudeat esse solutum, Est ubi virtutum regnum sine labe statutum,”
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

At Decatur and Huntsville, Alabama, was the infantry division of General R. S. Granger, estimated at four thousand; and near Florence, Alabama, watching the crossings of the Tennessee, were General Edward Hatch's division of cavalry, four thousand;
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

In the Kensington Museum there is a bust, exceedingly fine, of Mrs. Jameson, by the celebrated sculptor Gibson, executed by him, as the inscription speaks, "in her honour."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

See Ginsburg Essenes p. 69 sq. 394 .
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

It was only half a dozen little fairy tales, but Jo had worked over them patiently, putting her whole heart into her work, hoping to make something good enough to print.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

They represent two successive moments of a single evolution, so their homogeneousness is still great enough to permit comparisons.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Secondly, we are enabled to understand how it is that people of like disposition so quickly get on with one another, as though they were drawn together by magnetic force—kindred souls greeting each other from afar.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

[Pg 119] Bassompierre was destined to see a good deal of that terrace, for the years slowly dragged themselves along with hope constantly deferred and no fulfilment of the promises of freedom so glibly extended to him.
— from Early French Prisons Le Grand and Le Petit Châtelets; Vincennes; The Bastile; Loches; The Galleys; Revolutionary Prisons by Arthur Griffiths

It said 'Good evenin', Duke!'
— from Mr. Bingle by George Barr McCutcheon

“The rascal,” said Smetse, “does not seem glad enough at my deliverance.
— from Flemish Legends by Charles de Coster

Siepmann’s Advanced ƒ rench Series General Editors { OTTO SIEPMANN EUGÈNE PELLIASSIED LE PETIT CHOSE (HISTOIRE D’UN ENFANT)
— from Le Petit Chose (Histoire d'un Enfant) by Alphonse Daudet

“Father says the machinery will do good in the long run, Abijah—that it will largely increase trade, and so give employment to a great many more people than at present.
— from Through the Fray: A Tale of the Luddite Riots by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Hiram's steadfast gray eyes met bravely the eyes of the man who had just read him his death warrant.
— from The Second Generation by David Graham Phillips