Drill, 52 , 63 Drudgery, 218 Education, intellectual, 57 , 62 ; aim of, 143 f., 156 Elaboration, of ideas, 75 f., 84 , 94 f., 103 , 106 , 209 ; see Development, Ratiocination, Reasoning.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

SYN: Determined, ruled, resolute, firm, unwavering.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

So they say that one time Apollodorus in a dream saw himself flayed by the Scythians, and then boiled, and that his heart out of the caldron spoke to him in a low voice and said, "I am the cause of this;" and at another time he dreamed that he saw his daughters running round him in a circle all on fire and in flames.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

M. D—— R—— read the note, tore it to pieces, and in his excitement stamped with his foot upon the fragments.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It is an antithesis, as Dr. Rydberg remarks, to the Hildebrand and Hadubrand story, where father and son must fight and are reconciled.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

—You will see there is only one principal verb, flexit (or flexerunt ), with several principal subjects, fasces , purpura , discordia , res Romanae , perituraque regna , and no subordinate clauses.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

( Declaration du Sieur La Gache du Regiment Royal-Dragoons in Choiseul, pp.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

ANT: Degeneracy, degeneration, deterioration, debasement, retrogradation, retrogression.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

There were dark rings round his red eyes.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

6. de re rust.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The coast-line appeared exceedingly rugged and broken, and the interior, mountainous with deep ravines running very abruptly down to the sea.
— from Farthest North The Life and Explorations of Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood, of the Greely Arctic Expedition by Charles Lanman

Popery we can understand,—we know, at least, what it is,—but Protestantism erecting itself into Romish infallibility, yet still claiming to be Protestantism, is to us a sad and humiliating spectacle, showing what deep roots Roman Catholicism has in the weaker parts of our common nature.
— from Unitarianism Defended A Series of Lectures by Three Protestant Dissenting Ministers of Liverpool by John Hamilton Thom

[Pg 242] Crown , the, signifying Poland as contrasted with Lithuania, I 72, 88, 110, 113, 127, 162, 193 Crown Rabbis ("official," or kazyonny , rabbis), name explained, II 176 forced upon congregations, II 176 act as Government agents See Rabbis Crown Schools , see Schools Crusades , the, stimulate immigration of Jews into Poland, I 33, 41 give rise to Teutonic order, I 63 victims of Cossack massacres (1648) compared with those of, I 156 Cyril , Christian missionary, disputes with Jews, I 18 Daitzelman , Jewish merchant in Nizhni-Novgorod, victim of pogrom, II 361 Dakota, North and South , Jewish agricultural colonies in, II 374 Damascus , ritual murder trial of, II 68 Daniel Apostol , Hetman of Little Russia, pleads for admission of Jewish salesman, I 250 Dantzic , annexed by Prussia, I 292 Danube, The , Jewish emigration form provinces of, to Poland, I 41 Dardanelles, The , commerce between Genoa and Crimea through, I 34 Darkest Russia , periodical published in England, II 381 Darshanim (Preachers), in Poland, I 201 f Darvin, Charles , influences Russian-Jewish intelligenzia , II 209 Dashevski, Pincus , assaults Krushevan to avenge Kishinev massacre, III 81 f trial of, induces Plehve to forbid Zionism, III 82 receives greetings of Russian-Jewish convention, III 132 Davidov , Russian military leader, praises Jews, I 357 Davis, Noah , Judge, speaks at New York protest meeting, II 297 Decembrists ( Russian , Dyekabrist), Russian revolutionaries, name explained, I 410 suppressed by Nicholas I., II 13 attitude of, towards Jews, I 409 ff Dekert, John , mayor of Warsaw, champion of burgher class, I 286
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 3 [of 3] From the Accession of Nicholas II until the Present Day by Simon Dubnow

He was a man who had achieved distinction in putting down railroad riots, so he was well calculated for the task, although he was somewhat embarrassed by the laughter of the bystanders when his comrade called out to him, ‘Take your club, Mike, but don’t use firearms unless your life’s in danger!’
— from Marm Lisa by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

[Pg 313] “Doctor,” replied Richling, with a smile of expostulation, “you touch one’s pride.”
— from Dr. Sevier by George Washington Cable

[17] De Re Rustica, Cap.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 02 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Dorman Royle rose.
— from The Four Corners of the World by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason