The arms on the escutcheon of pretence are not those of his wife (Anne Hastings), who was not an heiress, and they seem difficult to account for unless they are a coat for Rivers or some other territorial lordship inherited from the Wydeville family.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

That, o'er the windings of Cayster's springs, 97 Stretch their long necks, and clap their rustling wings, Now tower aloft, and course in airy rounds, Now light with noise; with noise the field resounds.
— from The Iliad by Homer

I sent him up to the Circuit Court, Judge Pettit's, for McCook, but he soon returned, saying he could not find McCook, and accordingly I hurried with him up to Judge Gardner's office, intending to ask a continuance, but I found our antagonist there, with his lawyer and witnesses, and Judge Gardner would not grant a continuance, so of necessity I had to act, hoping that at every minute McCook would come.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Hence, it was a natural result that Serdze Kamen, which, as we have seen, was to coincide with the most northerly point reached by Bering, could no longer retain its position in the latitude of East Cape, which was more than a degree too far south; and in order to make Müller's account intelligible, Captain Cook had the choice between entirely expunging the name, or bringing it up to an approximately correct latitude.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

There hung Peter in his uneasy posture—holy Bartlemy in the troublesome act of flaying, after the famous Marsyas by Spagnoletti.—I honoured them all, and could almost have wept the defalcation of Iscariot—so much did we love to keep holy memories sacred:—only methought I a little grudged at the coalition of the better Jude with Simon-clubbing (as it were) their sanctities together, to make up one poor gaudy-day between them—as an economy unworthy of the dispensation.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

I recognised the active and creative power within the accidental.—Accident is in itself nothing more than the clashing of creative impulses.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

An unhappy fate prevented him from discovering the adjacent American continent.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

It was an ancestral custom that, at a certain sacrifice, all citizens of military age should join fully armed in a procession to the temple of Athene of the Brazen-house, while the Ephors remained in the sacred precinct and completed the sacrifice.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Since then, as a chorus girl, she had received others—gentlemen who prayed for an engagement.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

"Thou art a coward by nature, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "but lest thou shouldst say I am obstinate, and that I never do as thou dost advise, this once I will take thy advice, and withdraw out of reach of that fury thou so dreadest; but it must be on one condition, that never, in life or in death, thou art to say to anyone that I retired or withdrew from this danger out of fear, but only in compliance with thy entreaties; for if thou sayest otherwise thou wilt lie therein, and from this time to that, and from that to this, I give thee lie, and say thou liest and wilt lie every time thou thinkest or sayest it; and answer me not again; for at the mere thought that I am withdrawing or retiring from any danger, above all from this, which does seem to carry some little shadow of fear with it, I am ready to take my stand here and await alone, not only that Holy Brotherhood you talk of and dread, but the brothers of the twelve tribes of Israel, and the Seven Maccabees, and Castor and Pollux, and all the brothers and brotherhoods in the world."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Orthodox Christians say that a man must believe on Christ, must have faith, and that to act as Christ did, is not enough; that a man who acts exactly as Christ did, dying without faith, would go to hell.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 07 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll

We were green, raw troops, as anybody could tell at a glance; for we were fair-faced yet, and carried enormous knapsacks.
— from The Recollections of a Drummer-Boy by Henry Martyn Kieffer

It had been an incident of life at the front and of the organisation of war, causing less flurry than an ambulance call to an accident in a great city.
— from My Year of the Great War by Frederick Palmer

He and those who shared his sentiments have been often and harshly censured on this account, and certainly the expressions of his displeasure are not unfrequently characterized by the bluntness and narrowness peculiar to him; on a closer consideration, however, we must not only confess him to have been in individual instances substantially right, but we must also acknowledge that the national opposition in this field, more than anywhere else, went beyond the manifestly inadequate line of mere negative defence.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

The promise of success, on the other hand, spurred the Chilians on to still further effort, and in another ten minutes they had struck such terror into the hearts of the defenders of the stronghold that the guerillas flung down their arms and cried for quarter; and thus at last the tide of death was stopped.
— from Under the Chilian Flag: A Tale of War between Chili and Peru by Harry Collingwood

Let us quote Professor Tyndall on this point: "It is easy to calculate both the maximum and the minimum velocity imparted by the sun's attraction to an asteroid circulating round him.
— from The Day After Death; Or, Our Future Life According to Science (New Edition) by Louis Figuier

A distinction and association, or an inference, is a direct experience, a sensible fact; but it is the experience of a process, of a motion between two terms, and a consciousness of their coexistence and distinction; it is a feeling of relation.
— from The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana

They go out together, and a couple of the courtiers enter the garden and express surprise not to find the others waiting for them.
— from The Lighter Side of English Life by Frank Frankfort Moore

The pamphlet, dated 29th duly 1793, is in the form of a dialogue between an officer of the army, a citizen of Nismes, a manufacturer of Montpellier, and a citizen of Marseilles.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various