[3693] He is exposed to hatred, envy, peril and treason, fear of death, degradation, &c. 'tis lubrica statio et proxima praecipitio , and the higher he climbs, the greater is his fall.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[‘ atfare ’] oðfeallan 1 to fall off, decline, decay , CP: fall away from, be lost to, be wanting, fail : cease to concern .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

In the big pasture, which lay at the foot of Deni du Chien Mountain, was the largest herd in the valley.
— from Ted Strong's Motor Car Or, Fast and Furious by Edward C. Taylor

The time, place, object, and numbers considered, this expedition of Carson and Godey may be considered among the boldest and most disinterested which the annals of western adventure, so full of daring deeds, can present.
— from The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources by John Charles Frémont

It is full of deep ditches, creeks, and crevices, covered with a thick and rank vegetation, and the police would take at least a century to explore it.
— from Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter by Elliott O'Donnell

He knew his man, and a feeling of dark distrust came over him, as he listened to his orders concerning the famous accommodations he intended to give to Rose Budd and that “capital old lady, her aunt;” his opinion of “the immense deal of good sea-air and a v'y'ge would do Rose,” and how “comfortable they both would be on board the Molly Swash.”
— from Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef by James Fenimore Cooper

And a thought, which was to return later on as a conviction, suddenly flitted through his mind, then left him, in such wise that he was only conscious of the presence of Father Philibin, who, full of deep distressful calm, still held the newspaper and the writing-copy.
— from Truth [Vérité] by Émile Zola

But dem days not stay long, for one day dar come a fierce looking man, from way down in Kentuck, and as he went ober de plantation, I oberhears him saying to massa, dat he must hab just de smartest, good-looking niggars dat could be scared up, for dar was one ob de richest men in Kentuck dat was willing to pay any price for dem; but dey must be made ob de right material, for he worked his niggars, and cut dem up so, dat he hab to get in a fresh supply ebery now and den.
— from Natalie Or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds by Ferna Vale

If a particular commandment is not a principle, which means that a fundamental or derivative dogma cannot itself be a commandment, but must lie at the basis of all commandments, the question arises whence come these principles, and who is to warrant their truth.
— from A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

Deductively, he desires to show that, if they arise in that way, the facts of distribution, development, classification, etc., may be accounted for, i.e. may be deduced from their mode of origin, combined with admitted changes in physical geography and climate, during an indefinite period.
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley