We must banish, therefore, the persistent but wholly erroneous notion that the heralds invented many of the terms used in blazon and borrowed the rest from the everyday lexicon of terms...

an independent livelihood;  to make / earn / gain a good livelihood

Strangers arriving in a place and being considered of doubtful character are spoken of as “Very quis-quis sort of people,” meaning, “Whoever, or Whosoever, they may be, we don't know and can't find out.”

A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder, commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.[…].