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Adj added c v
Adj. added &c. v.; additional; supplemental, supplementary; suppletory[obs3], subjunctive; adjectitious[obs3], adscititious[obs3], ascititious[obs3]; additive, extra, accessory.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

age and character ventured
On the next day at breakfast, when Miss Osborne, with the asperity of her age and character, ventured to make some remark reflecting slightingly upon the Major's appearance or behaviour—the master of the house interrupted her.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

acquires a certain vibratory
At a sufficient distance over the woods this sound acquires a certain vibratory hum, as if the pine needles in the horizon were the strings of a harp which it swept.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Adj aiding c v
Adj. aiding &c. v.; auxiliary, adjuvant, helpful; coadjuvant &c. 709[obs3]; subservient, ministrant, ancillary, accessory, subsidiary.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

at a cash value
The unequal distribution of inhabitants over the territory, when men are crowded together in one place, while other places are depopulated; the encouragement of the arts that minister to luxury and of purely industrial arts at the expense of useful and laborious crafts; the sacrifice of agriculture to commerce; the necessitation of the tax-farmer by the mal-administration of the funds of the State; and in short, venality pushed to such an extreme that even public esteem is reckoned at a cash value, and virtue rated at a market price: these are the most obvious causes of opulence and of poverty, of public interest, of mutual hatred among citizens, of indifference to the common cause, of the corruption of the people, and of the weakening of all the springs of government.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

and are called Vēttuva
They have their own barbers, who seem also to form a separate sub-division, and are called Vēttuva Ambattans or Nāvidans, both of which words mean barber.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

abundant abounding c v
(complete) 52; ample; plenty, plentiful, plenteous; plenty as blackberries; copious, abundant; abounding &c. v.; replete, enough and to spare, flush; choke-full, chock-full; well-stocked, well-provided; liberal; unstinted, unstinting; stintless[obs3]; without stint; unsparing, unmeasured; lavish &c. 641; wholesale.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Adj accompanying c v
Adj. accompanying &c. v.; concomitant, fellow, twin, joint; associated with, coupled with; accessory, attendant, obbligato.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

also a complete variety
I had started a teacher-factory and a lot of Sunday-schools the first thing; as a result, I now had an admirable system of graded schools in full blast in those places, and also a complete variety of Protestant congregations all in a prosperous and growing condition.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

as a cause vain
I will only point at some of them, ex ungue leonem guess at the rest, and those of the chief kinds of superstition, which beside us Christians now domineer and crucify the world, Gentiles, Mahometans, Jews, &c. Of these symptoms some be general, some particular to each private sect: general to all, are, an extraordinary love and affection they bear and show to such as are of their own sect, and more than Vatinian hate to such as are opposite in religion, as they call it, or disagree from them in their superstitious rites, blind zeal, (which is as much a symptom as a cause,) vain fears, blind obedience, needless works, incredibilities, impossibilities, monstrous rites and ceremonies, wilfulness, blindness, obstinacy, &c.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

and a considerable vein
But he had a fine imagination, great power of expression, and a considerable vein of humour.
— from Royal Winchester: Wanderings in and about the Ancient Capital of England by A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan) L'Estrange

and a conformable view
In order to afford this satisfaction to mankind, and to preclude the possibility of any one being considered as dead who is not actually so; that the spread of infectious disorders be avoided as much as possible; that the quackeries so highly injurious to health may be suppressed; that murders committed by secret violence may be discovered, and the perpetrators delivered over to the hands of justice, is the imperative duty of every wise government; and in order to accomplish these objects, every one of which is of infinite importance, recourse must be had to the Safety Police as the most efficient means, by a strict medical examination into the deaths occurring, and a conformable view of the body.
— from A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. by Edwin Chadwick

annoyed and Caroline verging
Hargrave looked seriously annoyed, and Caroline verging upon a storm.
— from Mabel: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Newby, C. J., Mrs.

and anyone could vote
There was also no register, either great or small, and anyone could vote.
— from Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark by Harris Newmark

and a clinging Virginia
It was a neat unpretentious little villa graced by a number of trees and a clinging Virginia creeper, and Mr Drummond was a neat unpretentious little gentleman, graced by a number of virtues, and a devoted Mrs Drummond.
— from The Spy in Black by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston

and a childish voice
Over his shoulder I could see a tangled mass of dark brown curls, and a childish voice lisped “Why didn't you come for me, papa?
— from The Silent Bullet by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

and ancestral copper vessels
Perhaps commerce did for the Queen of the Adriatic by the importation of Rhodian, Damascus, and other eastern wares, what native industry supplied to the pomp and luxury of the hill cities of Umbria; for it must be borne in mind that the finer sorts of enamelled or glazed pottery, decorated by artistic hands, were only attainable by the richer class of purchasers; more modest wares or wooden trenchers, and ancestral copper vessels, contenting the middle class.
— from Maiolica by C. Drury E. (Charles Drury Edward) Fortnum


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