The use a general should make of his cavalry depends, of course, somewhat upon its numerical strength as compared with that of the whole army, and upon its quality.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

, 486 Utilitarian—formula of distribution not really at variance with Common Sense, 432 , 433 ; justification of special affections, 433 , 434 ; ideal code, difficulties of constructing such, for present human beings, 467-470 ; rectification of Common Sense Morality must proceed by empirical method, 476-480 ; innovation, negative and destructive, probable effects of ( a ) on the agent, 481 , 482-483 , ( b ) on others, 482 , 483 ; innovation, positive and supplementary, as affecting the agent and others, 483 , 484 ; innovation in relation to degree of publicity and generality of acceptance, 489-490 , 489 note 1; reform, consists largely in enforcing old rules, 484 ; exceptions to current morality ( a ) may generally be stated as fresh rules, 485 , 489 , ( b ) special and rare cases of, 486-487 ; Duty and Religious Sanction, 503-506 ; Sanction, 500 seq.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

SYN: Circumvent, wheedle, swindle, gull, cheat, dupe, overreach, coax, seduce, deceive.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

My good friend, your business is done; nobody can restore you; they can, at the most, but patch you up, and prop you a little, and by that means prolong your misery an hour or two: “Non secus instantem cupiens fulcire ruinam, Diversis contra nititur obiicibus; Donec certa dies, omni compage soluta, Ipsum cum rebus subruat auxilium.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

For on that side whither I had set my face, and whither I trembled to go, there appeared unto me the chaste dignity of Continency, serene, yet not relaxedly, gay, honestly alluring me to come and doubt not; and stretching forth to receive and embrace me, her holy hands full of multitudes of good examples: there were so many young men and maidens here, a multitude of youth and every age, grave widows and aged virgins; and Continence herself in all, not barren, but a fruitful mother of children of joys, by Thee her
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

A certain degree of ceremony settled upon them with the announcement of dinner.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

It was wonderful how quickly they could in this way construct defences of considerable strength.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

v 1 [APB; c1P] dry out; cause s.t. to do so.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The old clergyman droned on, Cossethay sat unmoved as usual.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

They warmed up on a matinee, digested a Chinese dinner of chop suey and foyung, rice-cakes and various uncivilized desserts, went to bed late, and next morning had a plunge in the ocean.
— from A Canadian Bankclerk by Jack Preston

"But there are real cases deserving of charity?" said Markham, interrogatively,—for he almost felt disposed to doubt the fact.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

Why they came down one cannot say, but they married well.
— from Cornish Characters and Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

“It seemed probable,” he says, “that by concealing our movements under cover of the (West) wood, we could draw our columns so near to the enemy to the front that we would have but a few rods to march to mingle our ranks with his; that our columns, massed in goodly numbers, and pressing heavily upon a single point, would give the enemy much trouble and might cut him in two, breaking up his battle arrangements at Burnside Bridge.”
— from Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson