A fully equipped defence department was organised at the Town Hall, and young Heine, disappointed like myself in his hopes of the performance of Lohengrin, had also joined this body.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

ANT: Failure, exhaustion, deprivation, disappointment.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

ANT: Forbid, exclude, discard, deprecate, repel.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

année , f. , espace de douze mois.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

If it happens sometimes that man suffers without any expectation of a cure, he necessarily finds pleasure in the complete certainty of the end of his life; for the worst, in all cases, must be either a sleep arising from extreme dejection, during which we have the consolation of happy dreams or the loss of all sensitiveness.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Nouns of the fifth declension are feminine except diēs , day , and merīdiēs , midday , which are usually masculine.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Nouns of the fifth declension are feminine except diês , day , and merîdiês , midday , which are usually masculine.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

"On the Common Plan of Animal Forms" (Abstract of a Friday evening discourse delivered at the Royal Institution on May 12, 1854.) "Proceedings of the Royal Institution" 1 (1851-54) 444-446.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Thomas Henry Huxley

Science and reflection at first engender doubt, disquietude, distaste for what one possesses, the disturbed pursuit of what one knows not, troubles of mind and soul, sore travail of thought, and, in life, many faults, until innocence, forever lost, is replaced by virtue, simple faith by true {108} science, until love, through so many vanishing illusions, finally succeeds in reaching its true object.
— from Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

In France, the clergy of a diocese receive from their bishop orders which they obey blindly; they all teach the same dogma, and have no [ Pg xii] competition to keep up; but, in England, everybody reasons and argues: the young clergyman, fresh from Oxford or Cambridge, has his own way of interpreting the Scriptures, and the bishop is constantly called upon to pacify, to conciliate all his little clerical world who are for ever dogmatising, discussing, disputing, in the pulpit, in meetings, in the newspapers, and keep him on the alert all the year round.
— from John Bull's Womankind (Les Filles de John Bull) by Max O'Rell

"On certain Zoological Arguments commonly adduced in favour of the Hypothesis of the Progressive Development of Animal Life in Time." (Abstract of a Friday evening discourse delivered on April 20, 1855.)
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Thomas Henry Huxley

As for Evan, Diana dared not so much in her thoughts as even to glance his way.
— from Diana by Susan Warner

The sun has set; A fateful evening doth descend upon us, And brings on their long night!
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 2 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Bonhoeffer states that aside from epilepsy directly due to brain injury by shells, there has been no certain case in which we have the right to regard the war itself as the total cause of the epilepsy.
— from Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 by Elmer Ernest Southard