SYN: Debase, corrupt, deteriorate, vitiate, contaminate.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
SYN: Strive, compete, cope, dispute, vie, contest, struggle, grapple, argue, maintain, disagree, wrangle.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
It was in the year 1584, the beginning of that, in which St. Aubert died, that Francis Beauveau, Count De Villefort, came into possession of the mansion and extensive domain called Chateau-le-Blanc, situated in the province of Languedoc, on the shore of the Mediterranean.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe
Les abus sont nombreux, on vend des choses qui n'existent pas - je considère cela comme du vol - c'est la raison pour laquelle les gens ne sont pas très confiants dans ce type de commerce.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
cum diēs vēnit, causā ipse prō sē dictā, damnātur , L. 4, 44, 10, when the day of the trial came, he spoke in his own defence and was condemned .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane
Simplex sit cibus et non varius: quod licet dignitati tuae ob convivas difficile videatur, &c. 2945 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
A certain Dirck van Cattenburch, a collector of works of art, presuming that, in the state of Rembrandt's affairs, the large house in the Breestraat could only be an encumbrance to him, proposed to relieve him of it by a sufficiently curious arrangement.
— from Rembrandt van Rijn by Malcolm Bell
"B-B-B” CHAPTER X. AT THE CLUB DE VINGT CHAPTER XI.
— from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln
There are certain expressions which, as Mr. Fish shows them apart from their connection, do very certainly seem in bad taste, if not actually indiscreet and unjustifiable.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley
Et a torto si lamenta del mare, chi due volte civoul tornare, will another say.
— from Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 by Arthur Acheson
Capítoli della venerábil compagnia della lésina.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio
Cédula de vecindad —Certificate of identity.
— from Wild Spain (España agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Abel Chapman
If Mr. C. Augustus Ebénier had been a prudent colored man, he would have avoided the meeting which Captain Dock Vincent contrived to bring about, by dodging around the rocks, and again appearing in the principal path.
— from Freaks of Fortune; or, Half Round the World by Oliver Optic
Jurgia, discordias, simultates cum hostibus exercebant, cives cum civibus de virtute certabant; in suppliciis
— from C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino by Sallust
Another paratype in the private collection of C. J. Goin from Caño Tuí, between Mitú and Raudal de Yurupari, Comisaria de Vaupés, Colombia, was not examined.
— from A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by William Edward Duellman
She, on the contrary, distinguished very clearly a stiff, wooden figure, grizzly whiskers, a protruding under-jaw, one of those brigands of the Law whom we meet in the outskirts of the Palais de Justice, and who seem to have been born fifty years old, with a bitter expression about the mouth, an envious manner, and morocco satchels under their arms.
— from The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Alphonse Daudet
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