Adj. round, rounded, circular, annular, orbicular; oval, ovate; elliptic, elliptical; egg-shaped; pear-shaped &c. 245; cycloidal &c. n[obs3].; spherical &c. 249.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

SYN:, Abolish, revoke, rescind, cancel, annul, recal, abrogate, reverse, discontinue, rescind, make void.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Emulation and rivalry represent conflict at higher social levels, where competition has been translated into forms that inure to the survival and success of the group.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

(8) Burr, Anna R. Religious Confessions and Confessants.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

A procedure which aims at cleaning and refining raw coffee, and which has been the subject of much polemical discussion, is that of Thum [120] .
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

It looks for all the world like a Roman ruin, crumbled and mysterious, and just beyond them is a set of caves that let out into the sea.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

As a rule, Roman Catholics and Reformers were equally strong in their condemnation of its worthlessness.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

T alking of Wild Pigeons, "Le Sieur D.B." tells us that there were on the island of Bourbon "others of a russet red colour, a little larger than European pigeons, with the beak larger, red at base near the head, the eyes surrounded by a fiery colour, as in the pheasants.
— from Extinct Birds An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those Birds which have become extinct in historical times by Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron

Another mode of building a rural road cheaply and still have room for passing
— from The Future of Road-making in America by Archer Butler Hulbert

These run a rather rapid course and usually end in from one to two years in diabetic coma or some complication connected directly with the diabetes.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

[A cock.] Riddle me, riddle me, rot-tot-tot, A wee, wee man in a red, red coat; A staff in his hand and a stane in his throat, Riddle me, riddle me, rot-tot-tot.
— from Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Robert Ford

" What are you?" "I'm nothing much, except a member of a rather respectable club, and a man who doesn't sleep overly well.
— from The Man Who Couldn't Sleep by Arthur Stringer

That I had from my very babyhood been a reckless reader, came about from necessity—I had no choice, I simply read every single thing in print that my greedy hands closed upon; the results of this promiscuous reading, ranging from dime novels to Cowper, were sometimes amusing.
— from Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections by Clara Morris

Under present conditions Western Australia and the Northern Territory are isolated from the remaining States of the Commonwealth so far as regards rail communication, and are at the mercy of any invader who might be able to land a force there unchallenged by the British Fleet.
— from The Rise of Rail-Power in War and Conquest, 1833-1914 by Edwin A. Pratt

N. B. The point of attack suggested above in disputes with the Romanists is of special expediency in the present day: because a number of pious and reasonable Roman Catholics are not aware of the dependency of their other tenets on this of the infallibility of their Church decisions, as they call them, but are themselves shaken and disposed to explain it away.
— from The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The arch bricks are of a rich red colour, and contrast well with the brickwork of the ordinary kind above them; they are used without any kind of moulding or ornament—and yet I doubt whether I have ever seen a more lovely cloister than this.
— from Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages: Notes of Tours in the North of Italy by George Edmund Street