This consists in returning rudeness with still greater rudeness; and if insults are no use, you can try a blow, which forms a sort of climax in the redemption of your honor; for instance, a box on the ear may be cured by a blow with a stick, and a blow with a stick by a thrashing with a horsewhip; and, as the approved remedy for this last, some people recommend you to spit at your opponent.[1]
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

In noticing Mr. Warner’s edition in the ‘Academy’ (from a borrowed copy), I remarked rather ruefully that the gratitude which students of moderate means could feel towards the Club for printing so valuable a work was somewhat tempered by this little matter of the price.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

At the end of the conversation the receivers are hung on their hooks again, and the bell circuit is remade, ready for the next call.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

He knows that such a charge is readily received by the world, as I myself know too well; for when I speak in the assembly about divine things, and foretell the future to them, they laugh at me and think me a madman.
— from Euthyphro by Plato

THE TRIUMPH OF CAESAR SIGNIFER Pompēiō amīcīsque eius superātīs atque omnibus hostibus ubīque victīs, Caesar imperātor Rōmam rediit et 1 extrā moenia urbis in campō Mārtiō castra posuit.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Conjugation III agō crēdō fugiō iaciō interficiō rapiō resis´tō agere crēdere fugere iacere interficere rapere resis´tere ēgī crēdidī fūgī iēcī interfēcī rapuī re´stitī drive believe flee hurl kill seize resist Conjugation IV repe´riō reperī´re rep´perī find 2.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

General Taylor was himself only a colonel, in real rank, at that time, and a brigadier-general by brevet.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

ANT: Coarseness, inaccuracy, rudeness, roughness.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

ANT: Suture, junction, union, continuity, integrity, reparation, redintegration, reunion, consolidation.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The latter was afterward crippled in Red River, and was captured by the rebels; and the Indianola was butted and sunk about forty miles below Vicksburg.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

She fell into one of those reveries which she thought she had forever forbidden to herself, and there rose before her mind the picture of a marriage-ceremony,—but the eyes of the bridegroom were dark, and his curls were clustering in raven ringlets, and her hand throbbed in his as it had never throbbed in any other.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

It was testified 244 concerning the New York banks in 1873 that “ their capital needed for legitimate purposes was practically lent out on certain iron rails, railroad-ties, bridges, and rolling-stock, called railroads, many of them laid down in places where these materials were practically useless. ”
— from Principles of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill

Liberal opinions were denounced as criminal, notwithstanding the example first set by the courts in ridiculing religion, in mocking all that was venerable and sacred.
— from Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4 by Wolfgang Menzel

Thy clime is rude, Replete with vapours, and disposes much All hearts to sadness, and none more than mine; Thine unadulterate manners are less soft And plausible than social life requires.
— from The Task, and Other Poems by William Cowper

Although Burma remains a poor Asian country, its rich resources furnish the potential for substantial long-term increases in income, exports, and living standards.
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Like other incidents of sovereignty, coinage is reserved rightfully to the Government, and on this account is little appreciated in its true character.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 11 (of 20) by Charles Sumner