It was clear that Lydgate, by not dispensing drugs, intended to cast imputations on his equals, and also to obscure the limit between his own rank as a general practitioner and that of the physicians, who, in the interest of the profession, felt bound to maintain its various grades,—especially against a man who had not been to either of the English universities and enjoyed the absence of anatomical and bedside study there, but came with a libellous pretension to experience in Edinburgh and Paris, where observation might be abundant indeed, but hardly sound.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

And here without staying for my reply, shall I be called as many blockheads, numsculs, doddypoles, dunderheads, ninny-hammers, goosecaps, joltheads, nincompoops, and sh-
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Moreover, several important departments of custom and social life have been, no doubt designedly, omitted: thus, to mention only one subject out of several that will probably occur to the reader, the modes of organisation of the Family and the Clan (which in certain Malay communities present archaic features of no common interest), together with the derivative notions affecting the tenure and inheritance of property, have found no place in this work.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The truths which are ultimately accepted as the first principles of a science, are really the last results of metaphysical analysis, practised on the elementary notions with which the science is conversant; and their relation to the science is not that of foundations to an edifice, but of roots to a tree, which may perform their office equally well though they be never dug down to and exposed to light.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

Operaciones mercantiles, business ( mercantile ) operations; compra y venta, compraventa, buying and selling; especulación, speculative transactions; movimiento mercantil, business; corretaje, brokerage; negocio, deal, dealings, business .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Just be what thou wilt, black night, dawn divine, There is not a nerve in my trembling frame But cries, "I adore thee, Beelzebub mine!"
— from The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire

"The more it be dried (yet must it be doone with soft fire) the sweeter and better the malt is, and the longer it will continue, whereas if it be not dried downe (as they call it), but slackelie handled, it will breed a kind of worme, called a wiuell , which groweth in the floure of the corne, and in processe of time will so eat out it selfe, that nothing shall remaine of the graine but euen the verie rind or huske.
— from Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser

ANT: Release, acquit, liberate, send, dismiss, betray, neglect, divulge, discard, abandon, intermit, disobey, disregard, transgress, forsake, desert, oblivate.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

These are suggested by the objects of sense, but not directly derived from nor given by those objects.
— from Mental Philosophy: Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will by Joseph Haven

Believing him to be one of Drake's men, they tortured him to make him confess where his captain's secret haven was, which he stedfastly refused to do; and since then he had been kept in slavery, drudging as a muleteer between Nombre de Dios and Panama.
— from With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang