"It is really very late for a call," she said, quietly, "but as I found that my daughter was passing this way, I thought I would follow her example and take the opportunity of paying a visit to Mrs. Brand.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Next summer I’ll take her down new furniture and carpets, so she’ll have something to look forward to all winter.’
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

: ferforth , far away, completely, S2, S3, C2, C3; farforth , S3; feoruoþ , S.—AS. feorr : OS. fer ; cp.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

But if you chance to term him fool and clown , Straight satisfaction cries, and then with speed The time, the place, and rapier's length's decreed.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

The part which provoked her most, was that in all this waste of foresight and caution, she should have lost the right moment for seeing whether he saw them.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

SYN: Fitted, adapted, competent, suitable, [See SUITABLE].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Further: Wish has for its object the End rather, but Moral Choice the means to the End; for instance, we wish to be healthy but we choose the means which will make us so; or happiness again we wish for, and commonly say so, but to say we choose is not an appropriate term, because, in short, the province of Moral Choice seems to be those things which are in our own power.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

With the red of her cheeks and the red of her lips she had something of the look of Lorenzo Lotto's lovely ladies, except for a certain sharp slenderness, a slenderness which came, I was to learn later, from an utter indifference to the claims of appetite.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

The four together formed a charming small society, quite independent of the husband’s humours and the outside world.
— from Veiled Women by Marmaduke William Pickthall

Governments can never wisely do favors for a class, since such favors weaken the power of government for promoting general welfare.
— from Rural Wealth and Welfare: Economic Principles Illustrated and Applied in Farm Life by Geo. T. (George Thompson) Fairchild

“My fingers are cold,” she said; “you bait the hooks.”
— from The Evil Genius: A Domestic Story by Wilkie Collins

On the evening that we moved into the dugout, [Pg 148] as we sat down to our first meal in winter quarters, Tom remarked with evident satisfaction: "Now, men, we've got things in shape so that we're ready for a cold snap, snow-storm, or norther ef one chances to come this way.
— from The Wolf Hunters: A Story of the Buffalo Plains by Robert Morris Peck

We are unable to find any castle site so near the Rhymney as Ruperra, where Clark mentions a fine motte.
— from The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles. by Ella S. Armitage

His teeth closed over the linen, his eyes burned, and he felt a curious stabbing sensation in his throat.
— from The Duel by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin

Hats found no favour with them; all of them wore caps; and their tight clothes, apparently from a common source, showed a vivacious fancy for oblique pockets, false belts, and Easter-egg colourings.
— from Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington