Thus, a “ hoisting engine” may be understood either as an “engine that hoists ,” or as an “engine for hoisting .”
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

SYN: Hatred, antipathy, dissention, aversion, acrimony, feud, strife, rancor, antagonism, bitterness, acerbity, hostility, enmity, malice, anger, malevolence, ill-will, malignity, feeling against.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

I shuddered with horror to think how they must already have examined me.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

He was well aware of our great courage, and how every man among us strove who should be the first to dash among the enemy's ranks.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

She is a sweet lovable girl, as amiable and attentive to every one about her as her excellent mother used to be—though, personally speaking, she takes after her father.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Thence, leaving Balty there, I took my wife to St. James’s, and there carried her to the Queen’s Chapel, the first time I ever did it; and heard excellent musick, but not so good as by accident I did hear there yesterday, as I went through the Park from White Hall to see Sir W. Coventry, which I have forgot to set down in my journal yesterday.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Mr. Bounderby has made his proposal of marriage to me, and has entreated me to make it known to you, and to express his hope that you will take it into your favourable consideration.’
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Emily surveyed the gaiety of the scene with a melancholy kind of pleasure, and her emotion may be imagined when, as she stood with her aunt, looking at one of the groups, she perceived Valancourt; saw him dancing with a young and beautiful lady, saw him conversing with her with a mixture of attention and familiarity, such as she had seldom observed in his manner.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

I also had engaged myself not to desert them; it appeared to me inhuman to ground any infraction of my word on theirs.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

744 is reproduced from a drawing also incised on birch bark by Ojibwa, and relates to a hunting expedition made by his father and two companions, all of whom are represented by three human forms near the left-hand upper line.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery

The voice at his elbow made him bound.
— from A Changed Heart: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

An hour each morning and afternoon should be consecrated to this purpose.
— from A Guide-Book of Florida and the South for Tourists, Invalids and Emigrants by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

You have acted like a friend and have earned my eternal consideration, even if we never speak again."
— from Agatha Webb by Anna Katharine Green

No person whatsoever shall hold or claim any land in CAROLINA by purchase or gift, or otherwise, from the natives, or any other whatsoever; but merely from and under the Lords Proprietors; upon pain of forfeiture of all his estate, moveable or immoveable, and perpetual banishment.
— from An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 by Alexander Hewatt

" Will had now put his arm round Bet's waist, and his eager masterful face was close to hers.
— from A Girl of the People by L. T. Meade

Then Milady collected all her energies, murmuring in the depths of her soul the name of Felton--the only beam of light that penetrated to her in the hell into which she had fallen; and like a serpent which folds and unfolds its rings to ascertain its strength, she enveloped Felton beforehand in the thousand meshes of her inventive imagination.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Recalled thus to a recollection of others, she looked around her, and her eyes met his.
— from Evenings at Donaldson Manor; Or, The Christmas Guest by Maria J. (Maria Jane) McIntosh

Each time he reappeared with his nose redder, and his eyes more inflamed.
— from Luck and Pluck; or, John Oakley's Inheritance by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

“Papa says he’s the—the—I think he said the ‘smoothest’—book agent he ever met,” said Harry eagerly.
— from Harry's Island by Ralph Henry Barbour