ii. page 79), thus speaks of the ensigns or flags ( σημεῖα ) used by the Grecians in their military affairs: "Of these there were different sorts, several of which were adorned with images of animals, or other things bearing peculiar relations to the cities they belong to.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Nor could it have been the large and small States only, which would marshal themselves in opposition to each other on various points.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Accordingly they betake themselves to a neighbouring dining-house, of the class known among its frequenters by the denomination slap-bang, where the waitress, a bouncing young female of forty, is supposed to have made some impression on the susceptible Smallweed, of whom it may be remarked that he is a weird changeling to whom years are nothing.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

I am resolved to keep account of all these matters, and Mr. Longman has already furnished me with a vellum book of white paper; some sides of which I hope soon to fill with the names of proper objects: And though my dear master has given me all this without account, yet shall he see (but nobody else) how I lay it out, from quarter to quarter; and I will, if any be left, carry it on, like an accomptant, to the next quarter, and strike a balance four times a year, and a general balance at every year's end.—And I have written in it, Humble RETURNS for DIVINE MERCIES; and locked it up safe in my newly-presented cabinet.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Which is, your noble worthie sister, shee Of whom, if what in this my Extasie And revelation of you both I see, 55 I should write here, as in short Galleries The Master at the end large glasses ties, So to present the roome twice to our eyes,
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

If the youth should start out with the fixed determination that every statement he makes shall be the exact truth; that every promise he makes shall be redeemed to the letter; that every appointment shall be kept with the strictest faithfulness and with full regard for other men's time; if he should hold his reputation as a priceless treasure, feel that the eyes of the world are upon him that he must not deviate a hair's breadth from the truth and right; if he should take such a stand at the outset, he would, like George Peabody, come to have almost unlimited credit and the confidence of everybody who knows him.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

We had no other means of collecting the rain than by holding the sheet spread out with one of the forechain-plates in the middle of it.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

"All that I have said to thee so far, Anselmo, has had reference to what concerns thee; now it is right that I should say something of what regards myself; and if I be prolix, pardon me, for the labyrinth into which thou hast entered and from which thou wouldst have me extricate thee makes it necessary.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

It was given out, both at home and to the world, that no shipwrecked sailors or waifs would be welcomed when brought on foreign vessels.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

"Thank you, sir," she said, obeying with alacrity.
— from Elsie's Kith and Kin by Martha Finley

His two first works, A Vindication of Natural Society and The Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful , brought him political as well as literary recognition, and several small offices were in turn given to him.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

"Between the spot where we were and Longwood is a huge fearful-looking black hollow, called the Devil's Punch-bowl, as round and deep as a pitch-pot for caulking all the ships in the world—except on a slope into one corner of it, where you saw a couple of yellow cottages with gardens about them; while every here and there a patch of grass began to appear, a clump of wild weeds and flowers hanging off the fronts of the rocks, or the head of some valley widening away out of sight, with the glimpse of a house amongst trees, where some stream of water came leaping down off the heights and vanished in the boggy piece of green below.
— from The Green Hand: Adventures of a Naval Lieutenant by George Cupples

They laid them side by side and at their heads a modest stone marked “Charles” and “Bessie,” and none who had heard of the sad, sad story of wrong and revenge could look upon their graves with tearless eyes.
— from Zula by H. Esselstyn Lindley

The leading feature of the plain on the southern slopes of which the English camp was placed is the Isandhlwana, or Lion Hill.
— from The Story of the Zulu Campaign by Edmund Verney Wyatt Edgell

Why don't you say something occasionally when it's needed, instead of sitting dumb as a sphinx and getting into all sorts of trouble?
— from The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White

Hubner after a time showed signs of weakening.
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack

From the little damp room in which Ross slept during his apprenticeship to a house-painter, Miller used to hear the sweet sounds on which his soul rose for the time above all its sorrows.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIV July and October, 1871 by Various

Ne’er wears onny other sort, Sunday or warkday.
— from Miriam: A Tale of Pole Moor and the Greenfield Hills by D. F. E. Sykes