ANT: Conciliate, retain, endear, entail, bind, secure.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

= KEY: Value \v.\. SYN: Appreciate, compute, rate, estimate, esteem, treasure, appraise, prize.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The "Grand Legend" of Rosicrucianism rests, however, on no historical evidence; there is, in fact, not the least reason to suppose that any such person as Christian Rosenkreutz ever existed.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

A Drying Patio on a Costa Rica Estate Early Guardiola Steam Drier, "El Canida" Plantation, Costa Rica Photograph by R.C. Wilhelm.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

We also know that the rulers of Asia were engaged in very remote eras in executing great national works, such as tanks and canals, requiring extensive excavations.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

And he directs the Evodes to be dissolved and diluted in water, and introduced into the eyes with a probe, or after inverting the eyelid, when it was used with the view of extenuating recent cicatrices of the eyes, and removing granulations of the eyelids,—“ex aqua autem ad cicatrices recentes extenuendas, et palpebrarum asperitudinem tollendam teri debet, et subjecto specillo aut inversa palpebra, oculis inseri.”
— from Archæological Essays, Vol. 2 by James Young Simpson

Our duties on this expedition necessitated our stopping at every house on the road to obtain the numbers of the lands,—that is, the section, township, and the range,—ascertain the quarter section on which the house stood, learn the names of all creeks, note all cross roads, etc., etc.
— from The Lone Star Defenders: A Chronicle of the Third Texas Cavalry, Ross' Brigade by S. B. (Samuel Benton) Barron

The only advantage of a unitary home lies in this, that the members may easily assemble in a common room every evening for an hour, not with any set or foreordained purpose, but for that interchange of thought and experience which makes up, or should, a large and important part of family life.
— from The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Charles Nordhoff

Despite the fact that not a little crusading zeal entered into these campaigns and that Ferdinand himself was an ardent Christian, religious enthusiasm, even yet, was not as uncompromising as it later became.
— from A History of Spain founded on the Historia de España y de la civilización española of Rafael Altamira by Rafael Altamira