When a Royal Licence is issued to an illegitimate person to bear the name and arms of another family, no right is conferred to bear the quarterings of that family even subject to difference marks.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Drewyer and Whitehouse also return late in the evening, they had killed one Elk, part of the meat of which they brought in with them.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Theresa entreated, expostulated, and then described the distress of Valancourt, when he had given the ring, and repeated the message, with which he had commissioned her to deliver it; and Emily could not conceal the extreme sorrow this recital occasioned her, but wept, and remained lost in thought.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

the wings are remarkably long in proportion to the size of the body and it's under chap towards the extremity is more gibbous and protuberant than in either of the other speceis.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

It was a young, wealthy and respected lawyer in town, named Courbataille.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

“Well, all right, let it go, since you vote me down.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

"Well," he said, with a round laugh, "I'm goin' your way.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

So even when I was with him, he would watch me with a restless look in his eyes.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

The next day, when the record of promotions [ 224 ] was placed before the King, he read how B had been advanced, but not one word was there about A. King Tai-jong made inquiry, and when he knew the circumstances he gave a sudden start of wonder and remained long in deep thought.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

There was a reproachful light in his eyes.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He was a recognized leader in the extension of the Baptist Church in Southwestern Virginia, and his foresight and wise counsel contributed in no small measure to the vigorous life and growth of that denomination.
— from Charles Lewis Cocke, Founder of Hollins College by William Robert Lee Smith

we read of the rulers of one synagogue, as we also read (Luke iii. 2.) that Annas and Caiaphas were contemporary High Priests, though we know that in a strict sense there could be but one who bore that office.
— from Short Reasons for Communion with the Church of England Or, The Churchman's answer to the question, "Why are you a Member of the Established Church?" by Thomas Tregenna Biddulph

she said to herself, with a reckless laugh; “I am equally worthless in my own estimation, whichever I put on.”
— from No Name by Wilkie Collins

It is convenient to have the window slide, as it enables you to open it and have white light to work by when a ruby light is not necessary.
— from The Boy Craftsman Practical and Profitable Ideas for a Boy's Leisure Hours by A. Neely (Albert Neely) Hall

The first thing that strikes the visitor who enters an ordinary elementary school while a reading lesson is in progress is that the children are not reading at all, in the accepted sense of the word.
— from On The Art of Reading by Arthur Quiller-Couch

We spent part of last week at Rockaway, L. I., visiting a friend.
— from The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George Lewis Prentiss

There was no time to lose in feints and flourishes; the man with the torch had drawn his sword, and was coming up; and Rupert parried a thrust of his assailant's, and with a rapid lunge in tierce ran him right through the body.
— from The Cornet of Horse: A Tale of Marlborough's Wars by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

It was empty save for him, but there was a reserved label in the window.
— from The Philanderers by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

The gaunt trees stood without a rustling leaf in a stupor of silence.
— from The Hill of Venus by Nathan Gallizier