— N. adversity, evil &c. 619; failure &c. 732; bad luck, ill luck, evil luck, adverse luck, hard fortune, hard hap, hard luck, hard lot; frowns of fortune; evil dispensation, evil star, evil genius|; vicissitudes of life, ups and downs of life, broken fortunes; hard case, hard lines, hard life; sea of troubles; peck of troubles; hell upon earth; slough of despond. trouble, hardship, curse, blight, blast, load, pressure.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

There was a wagon, supplied with a telegraph operator, battery and telegraph instruments for each division, each corps, each army, and one for my headquarters.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

ā-sprungennes , -sprungnes f. failing, exhaustion, death : eclipse .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

ANT: Heat, oppress, weary, burden, afflict, annoy, tire, fatigue, exhaust, debilitate, enervate, relax.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

fin, e , délié et menu; précieux; spirituel; rusé, habile.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

He has also erected other buildings upon his farm, including one containing the large engine which is the motive power for his machinery, drill forge, electric dynamo, etc.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman

I explained my transactions of the day before, but he said that the fee for each day encompassed only the chances for that day; that if I desired to take my chances for this day I must again favor him with my name and two dollars.
— from The Secrets of the Great City A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City by James Dabney McCabe

Long before its seizure by fanatical enemies, who had no conceivable claim to it whatever, He had prophesied that “it shall be so abased in the days to come as to cause tears to flow from every discerning eye.”
— from God Passes By by Effendi Shoghi

I give you many thanks for hours of enjoyable recreation, and wish everlasting success to your illustrious magazine and the personnel that makes it possible.—Mortimer Weisinger, 266 Van Cortland Ave., Bronx, N. Y. A Letter from England Dear Editor: You will no doubt be surprised at receiving a letter of appreciation of your really stunning magazine from England.
— from Astounding Stories, March, 1931 by Various

Kennedy seized it and read: "McLoughlin concedes the city by a small majority to Travis, fifteen election districts estimated.
— from The Poisoned Pen by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

His brown locks floated around his head, and his features expressed deep earnestness and glowing ardour.
— from In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 05 by Georg Ebers

own Axis is performed in 24 Hours; consequently in that Period, each of those imaginary Lines or Degrees, becomes successively opposite to the Sun (which makes the Noon or precise Middle of the Day at each of those Degrees); and it must follow, that from the Time any one of those Lines passes the Sun, till the next passes, must be just four Minutes, for 24 Hours being divided by 360 will give that Quantity; so that for every Degree of Longitude we sail Westward, it will be Noon [3] with us four Minutes the later, and for every Degree Eastward four Minutes the sooner, and so in Proportion for any greater or less Quantity.
— from Remarks on a Pamphlet Lately published by the Rev. Mr. Maskelyne, Under the Authority of the Board of Longitude by John Harrison

où je me suis arreté pour écrire à Votre Majesté; cet officier a servi dans l’armée française, est décoré, et parait entièrement dévoué à nos intérêts.
— from The Campaign of Waterloo: A Military History Third Edition by John Codman Ropes