SYN: Liberality, bounteousness, benevolence, munificence, donation, gift, generosity, charity, benignity.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

By and by, by appointment, comes Commissioner Pett; and then a messenger from Mr. Coventry, who sits in his boat expecting us, and so we down to him at the Tower, and there took water all, and to Deptford (he in our passage taking notice how much difference there is between the old Captains for obedience and order, and the King’s new Captains, which I am very glad to hear him confess); and there we went into the Store-house, and viewed first the provisions there, and then his books, but Mr. Davis himself was not there, he having a kinswoman in the house dead, for which, when by and by I saw him, he do trouble himself most ridiculously, as if there was never another woman in the world; in which so much laziness, as also in the Clerkes of the Cheque and Survey (which after one another we did examine), as that I do not perceive that there is one-third of their duties performed; but I perceive, to my great content, Mr. Coventry will have things reformed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And they say, that the darkness befell by miracle of God.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

For to exaggerate with judgment one must begin by measuring with nicety.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

v [B2; a] become, be made colorful.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

We may infer that, while the race has been relatively stagnant, society has rapidly developed, and we must conclude that, whether for good or for evil, social changes are mainly determined, not by alterations of racial type, but by modifications of tradition due to the interactions of social causes.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

[ brōga ] brōm m. ‘ broom ,’ brushwood , Lcd ; Mdf. brōmfæsten n. enclosure of broom , WW 414 7 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Note 18 ( return ) [ In opinions of long continuance, and in which we have never before been molested by a single doubt, to be suddenly convinced of an error, is almost like being convicted of a fault.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

At first its voice was very hoarse and broken, being much troubled by a cobweb which some studious spider had woven across it, and having probably contracted a cold from long exposure to the chills and damps of the abbey.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

[Pg 632] Riccabocca , suppressing a sigh, and with his wonted address.—"If Mrs Dale were still single, she would never need a friend to say what her portion might be; but Miss Jemima is so good that I am quite sure it is not Miss Jemima's fault that she is still—Miss Jemima!"
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 68, No 422, December 1850 by Various

He was meditating on the best mode of operation for securing this important post with due regard to bien-séance , when he was twitched by the button by Mr. Mac Quedy, who said to him: “Lady Clarinda tells me, sir, that you are anxious to talk with me on the subject of exchangeable value, from which I infer that you have studied political economy, and as a great deal depends on the definition of value, I shall be glad to set you right on that point.”
— from Crotchet Castle by Thomas Love Peacock

See particularly the works of [365] Brenz, Kling, Beust, Schneidewin, Melanchthon, Zwingli, Bullinger, Bucer, Monner, Bidembach, Mentzer, Brouwer, and Forster, there referred to.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

There is a big field of black-currant bushes beside my garden to the south.
— from A Hilltop on the Marne Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914 by Mildred Aldrich

"I knowed a bear," began Mrs. Stebbins; but aunt Judith interrupted her with,— "Now, Angeline, do take a slice of mince-pie.
— from Winter Fun by William O. Stoddard

And no one ought to be secure in that life, the whole whereof is called a trial, that he who hath been capable of worse to be made better, may not likewise of better be made worse.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

If amongst the circle of thy friends, there be any who express an aversion to peruse this work,—fearful from its title or from fugitive report that the mind will be shocked more than it can be improved, or the blush of shame excited on the cheek oftener than the tear of sympathy will be drawn from the eye;—if, in a word, a false fastidiousness should prejudge, from its own supposition or from misrepresentations made to it by others, a book by means of which we have sought to convey many an useful moral and lash many a flagrant abuse,—do you, kind reader, oppose that prejudice, and exclaim—"Peruse, ere you condemn!"
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds