No member of the household, child, or domestic, ever entered that room without a certain terror.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Excluded from the power which ought to have belonged to the chief of Democrats enjoying even in "honorable retirement" the "confidence, affection, and respect" of his party, independence rapidly grew less heinous in his eyes.
— from Martin Van Buren by Edward Morse Shepard

When you took away those books [after reading extracts to the neighbor], the whole crew of devils,' etc., etc.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various

[U.S.] Syn. - Designation; command; order; direction; establishment; equipment.
— from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

[613] "Ils espèrent alors pêcher, comme on dit, en eau trouble, et atteindre le but qu'ils poursuivent depuis longtemps: celui de s'emparer de toutes les affaires.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

Si le Conseil considère que la plainte est recevable, il doit, s'il l'estime convenable, organiser des enquêtes et des investigations dans un ou plusieurs des pays intéressés.
— from The Geneva Protocol by David Hunter Miller

“Something doing in the case of Dutch Elsa, eh?” he said; “she and Johnny Frenchy have cooked up something between them.”
— from The Gold Bag by Carolyn Wells

The following statistics of what is known as "Black October 1901" are taken from the Blue Books of England and will give the reader an idea of the number of camps in the Transvaal alone, the number of their inhabitants, and the full death-rate within the period of thirty-one days:— [116] Total Census of Deaths, etc. etc., occurring in the Concentration Camps, Transvaal only, during the Month Of October 1901.
— from The Petticoat Commando: Boer Women in Secret Service by Johanna Brandt

[pg 24] It was believed that man was composed of different entities each having its separate life and function.
— from Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts With 143 Illustrations by Harry B. (Harry Brandeis) Wehle