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ANT: Freedom, exemption, immunity, license, dispensation, desertion, dereliction.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
Two figures entered in lively dispute.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller
" All these interjections breaking from me, in that wildness of expression that justly passes for eloquence in love, drew from him all the returns my fond heart could wish or require.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland
Going away for ever is like dying, so one can say things.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell
It is certainly very seldom that they can be found together, for experience in life does not give much hope that these three much-sought-after possessions can ever be found together on this side of the grave.
— from Palmistry for All by Cheiro
There, the destiny of nations is determined before its formal expression in legislative discussion, judicial decision or national controversy.
— from Lincoln, the Politician by T. Aaron Levy
Those who are advocating the abolition of armaments, and are thereby fostering war, have not this responsibility; for, if they are successful in what they are teaching and doing, the pretty constant warfare that will prevail among the great nations during the next century will cure much of the hypersentimentalism that finds expression in large degenerative charities; and these charities will be swept away under the tread of marching armies.
— from Defenseless America by Hudson Maxim
At the end: Finito e il libra del fidelissimo Amore Che portorno insieme Fiorio e
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Juan de Salcedo has returned from explorations in Luzon, during which he has circumnavigated the island—the first to accomplish that feat.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55, 1519-1522; 1280-1605 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta
Da dexteram surgentibus, Exurgat ut mens sobria, Flagrans et in laudem Dei Grates rependat debitas.
— from Hymni ecclesiae by John Henry Newman
It has introduced a finer economy into life, diminished death, disease, and misery.
— from Essays in War-Time: Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis
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