"Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or," as the arms of England, were used by Kings John, Henry III., Edward I., and Edward II.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

It is a picture of a future state of things called up by knowledge of the present state of things, the future being viewed as standing to the present in the relation of effect to cause.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Greatly distinguished himself at Quatre Bras, where the 69th was badly cut up by Kellermann’s Cuirassiers.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

Mukupil ning átung dílà usáhay basta kuyawan ta, We sometimes get tongue-tied when we get frightened.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Afterwards Ethelberg, for fear of the kings Eadbald and Oswald, 276 sent Wuscfrea and Yffi over into Gaul to be bred up by King Dagobert, 277 who was her friend; and there they both died in infancy, and were buried in the church with the honour due to royal children and to Christ's innocents.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

I know our country disposition well; In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks They dare not show their husbands; their best conscience Is not to leave't undone, but keep't unknown.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Chichikov’s business had nothing to do with the spread of enlightenment, he was but seeking an opportunity to inquire further concerning the putting of refuse to lucrative uses; but Kostanzhoglo would not let him get a word in edgeways, so irresistibly did the flow of sarcastic comment pour from the speaker’s lips.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

They are fastened together at the upper end by a bolt, then spread apart at the bottom, and so set up, being kept upright by ropes attached at the upper ends and fixed at intervals all round.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

"We pay our last respects unto Brother Kimball.
— from Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

There is usually no objection to marriage on account of religious differences within the pale of Hinduism, but the difficulty of a union between a member of a Vaishnava sect who abstains from flesh and liquor, and a partner who does not, is felt and expressed in the following saying: [ 61 ] Vaishnava purush avaishnava nāri Unt beil ki jot bichāri, or ‘A Vaishnava husband with a non-Vaishnava wife is like a camel yoked with a bullock.’
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

However, she asks no advice in her predicament, but takes the first road she finds, and rides along at random rapidly, unaccompanied by knight or squire.
— from Four Arthurian Romances by Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century

The flesh of a smaller species of alligator, some of which were also taken, is considered excellent food; and, while the Negroes were engaged in their work, Barney made himself useful by kindling a large fire and preparing a savoury dish for "all hands," plentifully seasoned with salt and pepper, with which condiments the country is well supplied, and of which the people are exceedingly fond.
— from Martin Rattler by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The new principle or law, as we have seen, is this: Perceptions, of the class which have usually been known as hallucinations, may be originated and transferred telepathically ; in other words, there is a subliminal self, which, under various conditions on the part of either agent or percipient, or both, may come to the surface and act, impressing the sensitive percipient through the senses, by dreams, visions, and apparitions, as well as through hallucinations of hearing and touch.
— from Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by R. Osgood (Rufus Osgood) Mason

As in the Hindi language they call a pillar istambh and khambh , they called the city Istambhnagarī and Khambāwatī, and sometimes also Trimbāwatī, in connection with the Raja’s name; Khambāwatī has by degrees and much use become Khambāyat (Cambay).
— from The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 1 of 2) by Emperor of Hindustan Jahangir

[In Lord Albemarle's "Memoirs of the Marquis of Rockingham." is contained the following remarkable state paper, drawn up by King George III himself respecting the plan of Burgoyne's expedition.
— from The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo by Creasy, Edward Shepherd, Sir

From them the actual distances of some of the more remote stars will ultimately be known.
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville