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Alienation separation enmity estrangement division
ANT: Alienation, separation, enmity, estrangement, division, offense, transgression.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

a sentir el efecto de
Pronto, con gran sorpresa, empezaron a sentir el efecto de su rebelión.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

amictum Sumere et exuvias deponere
[ Exultare Patres videas, pulcherrima mundi Lumina; Conciliumque senum gestire Catonum Candidiore toga niveum pietatis amictum Sumere; et exuvias deponere pontificales.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

audivi se esse ex damnatorum
Alios conquerentes audivi se esse ex damnatorum numero.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

a speed encreasing every day
As these multiply and advance, they become the apostles of beneficence, and the work is now on foot, and advances with a speed encreasing every day.
— from Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe carried on in the secret meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and reading societies. by John Robison

A short explanation ensued during
A short explanation ensued, during which the surgeon was obliged to admit that as San Giacinto had no means of proving any identity he, the doctor in charge, had thought it best to send for the police, in view of the unquiet state of the city.
— from Sant' Ilario by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

and scribes existed even down
These [Pg 131] two events made an end of the Gaelicism of the Gaelic race, although a great number of poets and scribes existed even down to the forties and fifties of the present century, and a few may linger on yet in remote localities.
— from The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde by George Sigerson

and see Esther every day
"You silly children," she said, "when we are all going home to-morrow, and you can walk over and see Esther every day, and take her flowers and nice things for Carrie."
— from Esther : a book for girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey

and Selwood examined every drawer
This was a Saturday morning—during the whole of that afternoon and evening the Professor and Selwood examined every drawer and receptacle in which Jacob Herapath’s papers lay, both at Portman Square and at Kensington.
— from The Herapath Property by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

A startled exclamation escaped Dick
A startled exclamation escaped Dick.
— from Motor Matt's Promise; or, The Wreck of the Hawk by Stanley R. Matthews

a strong escort every day
Notwithstanding the precaution of a strong escort every day, out or in, on the Picolata road, there had been more downright murdering there than in any other part of the territory, some having been shot down almost in sight of Augustine.
— from The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various

adds She expects every day
In a letter to Secretary Windebanke written from Paris, in July, 1636, Lord Scudamore, after saying something about Lady Purbeck, adds: "She expects every day Sir Robert Howard here:" but this must have been mere gossip, for Scudamore cannot have been in the confidence of that fugitive from England, Lady Purbeck, as he was English Ambassador at Paris; moreover, he was a particular [pg 124] ally of Archbishop Laud, [93] therefore, not likely to have relations with an escaped prisoner of Laud's; although, as we shall presently find, another, although very different, friend of Laud took her part.
— from The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck: A Scandal of the XVIIth Century by Thomas Longueville


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