k and reason: and they bother him With strange antithesis and forced conclusions, Errors, comparisons, and magnitudes,
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

SYN: Changeable, exchangeable, counterchangeable, alterable, mutable, revocable, discretional.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Raymond, the deliverer of Greece, the graceful soldier, who bore in his mien a tinge of all that, peculiar to her native clime, Evadne cherished as most dear— Raymond was loved by Evadne.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

So there be several remedies, as [4109] he saith, each disease a medicine, for every humour; and as some hold, every clime, every country, and more than that, every private place hath his proper remedies growing in it, peculiar almost to the domineering and most frequent maladies of it, As [4110] one discourseth, wormwood grows sparingly in Italy, because most part there they be misaffected with hot diseases: but henbane, poppy, and such cold herbs: with us in Germany and Poland, great store of it in every waste.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Darius and his army remained drawn up during the night in the same order as that in which they had first arrayed themselves; because they had not surrounded themselves with a completely entrenched camp, and, moreover, they were afraid that the enemy would attack them in the night.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Note 37 ( return ) [ His circumcision, education, &c., are marked by Marinus with brevity and reluctance, (l. i. p. 6, 7.)]
— 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

I believe these to be the very words used by Sir Francis Head when he asked my opinion on the subject, and I agreed with him most cordially; but if any one is inclined to suppose, from the light, playful, and I must say, undiplomatic style of Sir Francis’s despatches, that he had not calculated every chance, and made every disposition which prudence and foresight could suggest, they are very much mistaken.
— from Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat

Then he could endure company and much talk; besides, perhaps then he thought he should recover and not die, as afterwards he had cause to think, when he was quite wasted with pining sickness, when he was at the grave's mouth.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

At every point, at every bank and hill and factory, in every opening where people could stand or climb, expectant crowds awaited Mr. Gladstone's arrival.
— from The Grand Old Man Or, the Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of England by Richard B. (Richard Briscoe) Cook

Altmann invented a new aphorism, Omne granulum e granulo , as a refinement of Virchow’s omnis cellula e cellula ; and many other histologists, more or less in accord, accepted the chondriosomes as important entities, sui generis , intermediate in grade between the cell itself and its ultimate molecular components.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

She thought that most women make a great mistake in allowing dress to be the master instead of the servant of their good looks; many women were, she considered, entirely crushed and made insignificant by the beauty of their clothes.
— from Tenterhooks by Ada Leverson

and the whale came up to the surface with a huge pot of coffee, some sugar candy, excellent cream, and musty biscuit.
— from Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Bayard Taylor

Friction, thumbing, use of any kind, often partially obliterates them, creating endless confusion and mistakes.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 307 New Series, Saturday, November 17, 1849 by Various

Nor could ecclesiastical courts accomplish much, since the secular judges, to whom an appeal was open, found means to clear the guilty.
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird