How many great Caesars, mighty monarchs, tetrarchs, dynasties, princes lived in his days, in what plenty, what delicacy, how bravely attended, what a deal of gold and silver, what treasure, how many sumptuous palaces had they, what provinces and cities, ample territories, fields, rivers, fountains, parks, forests, lawns, woods, cells, &c.?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

deceptive, sophistical, jesuitical; illusive, illusory; specious, hollow, plausible, ad captandum[Lat], evasive; irrelevant &c. 10. weak, feeble, poor, flimsy, loose, vague.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The reader can himself apply this criticism to the following passages from Lotze and Stumpf respectively, which I quote because they are the ablest expressions of the view opposed to my own.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Alexander now resolved to disband his fleet, partly from lack of money at the time, and partly because he saw that his own fleet was not a match in battle for that of the Persians.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

The matter that disengages itself, which is dissipated suddenly at the moment of solidification, is a considerable quantum of caloric, the disappearance of which, as it was only required for preserving fluidity, leaves the new ice not in the least colder than the water which shortly before was fluid.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

“Cecil has a very high standard for people,” faltered Lucy, seeing trouble ahead.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Fraught , pp. freighted, laden with cargo, MD, C3; fraughted , S3.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

When her maid came to her room the following morning she noticed at once a strong odor of burnt sugar, and she found her mistress, with wide-open eyes, her face pale from lack of sleep, and shivering with terror in her bed.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

He wished, certainly, to eliminate inhumanities and baseness; but only that there might be free play for laughter, for individual happiness.
— from Lysistrata by Aristophanes

On the 3d June, 1816, he was in command of the steamer Washington, bound from Pittsburg for Louisville, when she met with the first serious disaster which had ever occurred in the steamboat navigation of the Ohio.
— from The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Ben Casseday

This triumphant proof of the truth of his proposition was admirably received; and the philosopher was in particular rewarded by the smiles of all the females present; for ladies usually are well pleased with any demonstration that saves them the trouble of comparison and reflection.
— from The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper

I have lived for self, for pleasure, for luxury; I have summoned wit, beauty, even wisdom around me.
— from Godolphin, Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

—Short chimneys are frequently provided for low bungalows, for architectural reasons.
— from Fireplaces and Chimneys - Farmers' Bulletin 1889 by T. A. H. (Thomas Arrington Huntington) Miller

At Verona, for the Refectory of S. Nazzaro, a monastery of Black Friars, he has painted in a large picture on canvas the supper that Simon the Leper gave to Our Lord, when the woman of sin threw herself at His feet, with many figures, portraits from life, and very rare perspective-views; and under the table are two dogs so beautiful that they appear real and alive, and further away certain cripples executed excellently well.
— from Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 07 (of 10) Tribolo to Il Sodoma by Giorgio Vasari

Precisely when and in what manner Dundee was slain is unknown; there is even a fair presumption, from letters of the English Government, that he was murdered by two men sent from England on some very secret mission.
— from A Short History of Scotland by Andrew Lang

And the fruits which grow there are all unwholesome, for they are effeminated [he is thinking of the abundance of fleshy pulpy fruit, like the stone fruits—plums, apricots, and nectarines—which were characteristic of this region in antiquity] and flabby by reason of the abundance of water.
— from Anthropology and the Classics Six Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford by Gilbert Murray

Next, happiness does not consist in the exemption from pain (?), from labour, care, business, and outward evils; such exemption leaving one a prey to morbid depression, anxiety, and hypochondria.
— from Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain