People love to have all rash actions done in a hurry.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

ANT: Repel, abjure, disaffect, insult, avoid, shun, repudiate.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

SYN: Avoidance, repulsion, aversion, dislike, interrepugnance, antipathy.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

As Yakov played very well on the fiddle, especially Russian songs, Shahkes sometimes invited him to join the orchestra at a fee of half a rouble a day, in addition to tips from the visitors.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Hans takes the bacon, ties it to a rope, and drags it away behind him.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

But in their theological aspects [ 232 ] the Dove and the Serpent blend; they are at once related and separated in Christ’s words, ‘Be ye wise as serpents and harmless as doves;’ but in the office of the Holy Ghost as representing a divine Intelligence, and its consequent evolution as executor of divine judgments, it fulfils in Christendom much the same part as the Serpent in the more primitive mythologies.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

A feature which is universally recognised as reprehensible and discreditable, is a tendency to retain a number of valuables and be slow in passing them on.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Among the many conceptions, which make up the very variegated web of human cognition, some are destined for pure use a priori, independent of all experience; and their title to be so employed always requires a deduction, inasmuch as, to justify such use of them, proofs from experience are not sufficient; but it is necessary to know how these conceptions can apply to objects without being derived from experience.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

They left the swamp, crossed a plain over which a fire had swept the preceding year, climbed a ridge, and descended into a second plain.
— from Kazan by James Oliver Curwood

In the afternoon we passed another ridge and descended into a small open valley where we found a spring of good water, and where we are now camped, near a very small creek, which runs in a direction a little north of west, and which I believe flows to the Firehole or the Madison river.
— from The Discovery of Yellowstone Park Journal of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the Year 1870 by Nathaniel Pitt Langford

Having attained a definite size the organism forms a rosette and divides into a number of forms similar to the smallest seen inside the corpuscles; these small forms enter other corpuscles and the cycle again begins.
— from Disease and Its Causes by W. T. (William Thomas) Councilman

"I've been talking to my father about cats a good deal lately, and he says if you put valerian on a rag and drag it along the ground, cats will follow it for miles.
— from The Terrible Twins by Edgar Jepson

Swiftly they thundered across the sod, dropped into a ravine, and disappeared in a cloud of dust.
— from A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

But Philip could not always read and dream; in a short time came the reality of school-days and boyish struggles.
— from With Spurs of Gold: Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds by Dolly Williams Kirk

[238] that was to cause him endless trouble, in which he marked out the boundaries between science and religion and declared it a mistake to take the literal interpretation of passages in Scripture that were obviously written according to the understanding of the common people.
— from The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe by Dorothy Stimson

—The terms interest and rent are distinguished in actual practice by the fact that interest is paid for the use of capital in some circulating form, while rent is paid for the use of fixed capital.
— from Rural Wealth and Welfare: Economic Principles Illustrated and Applied in Farm Life by Geo. T. (George Thompson) Fairchild