There are also a number of grants on record, not officially ranking as augmentations, in which a second crest has been granted as a memorial of descent or office, &c. The other cases in which double and treble crests occur are the results of exemplifications following upon Royal Licenses to assume name and arms.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

It is composed—of this there is now no doubt—almost entirely of the shells of minute animalcules; and animalcules (I use an unscientific word for the sake of unscientific readers) like these, and in some cases identical with them, are now forming a similar deposit of mud, at vast depths, over the greater part of the Atlantic sea-floor.
— from Town Geology by Charles Kingsley

When the latter so forget themselves in their disputes and quarrels with their noble associates as to use rough language, they are at once punished, even when they are in the right.
— from Three Years in Tibet by Ekai Kawaguchi

In some parts of New Guinea the people constructed their houses high up in the forks of great trees, and used rope ladders to ascend and descend.
— from Pioneers in Australasia by Harry Johnston

It is usually remembered longer than any other part of the address.
— from Extempore Speech: How to Acquire and Practice It by William Pittenger

This is the reason why, in the sight of every moral and sensible man, the child will always be a sacred thing; I mean an object which, by the grandeur of an idea, reduces to nothingness all grandeur realized by experience; an object which, in spite of all it may lose in the judgment of the understanding, regains largely the advantage before the judgment of reason.
— from Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

The Potawatomi had been urgent; Richardville, Little Turtle and all the Miamis had given their consent; the Weas and Kickapoos were about to ratify.
— from The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 by Elmore Barce

Next moment the Gora logue were upon us, roaring like tigers, and we were swept away before them.
— from Mutiny Memoirs: Being Personal Reminiscences of the Great Sepoy Revolt of 1857 by A. R. D. (Alfred Robert Davidson) Mackenzie