SYN: Sink, flag, decline, pine, languish, drop, bend, incurve, fade.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

But he is so little deceived by his own fiction that he would be the first to be surprised if it suddenly became a reality, and his toy bit him!
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

We raise our hands when we want to jump up; we elevate our eyebrows when we look up, to see further into the distance; we slap our foreheads in order to stimulate the muscles of our legs, dormant because of long sitting; we lay the palms of our hands on our mouths and turn the trunk because we discover in the course of life rather more disagreeable than pleasant things and hence we try to keep them out and to turn away from them.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

And the Duke of Albemarle did confirm it, and that somebody in the fight did cry out that a little Dutchman, by his ship, did plague him more than any other; upon which they were going to order him to be sunk, when they looked and found it was Du Tell, who, as the Duke of Albemarle says, had killed several men in several of our ships.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It cost me some trouble to find out Salem House; but I found it, and I found a haystack in the corner, and I lay down by it; having first walked round the wall, and looked up at the windows, and seen that all was dark and silent within.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The sides of this square are formed anteriorly by the line ranging from the mental symphysis to the top of the sternum, and posteriorly by a line drawn between the occiput and shoulder.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

It is, therefore, not a principle of the possibility of experience or of the empirical cognition of sensuous objects—consequently not a principle of the understanding; for every experience is confined within certain proper limits determined by the given intuition.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Then the lazy fellow loosened his belt, lay down beside the rock, and went to sleep.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

And thus I have brought to an end my Discourse of Civill and Ecclesiasticall Government, occasioned by the disorders of the present time, without partiality, without application, and without other designe, than to set before mens eyes the mutuall Relation between Protection and Obedience; of which the condition of Humane Nature, and the Laws Divine, (both Naturall and Positive) require an inviolable observation.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

But whenever we have the means of instituting a comparison, the same laws appear to have acted in producing the lesser differences between varieties of the same species, and the greater differences between species of the same genus.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

The provisions laid down by decision of the Bundesrath (Federal Council) shall be limited as to time, and shall also be issued for certain specified districts.
— from The Theory and Policy of Labour Protection by A. (Albert) Schäffle

They were like eternal lines drawn by the gods from earth to heaven.
— from The Tour: A Story of Ancient Egypt by Louis Couperus

The pilot maneuvered the Sirius into line, directly between Jupiter and the pentagon; and as the driving projectors went into action, Brandon drove a mighty pressor field along their axis, squarely into the center of mass of the Vorkulian fortress.
— from Spacehounds of IPC by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

305 A suggestion from the Cherokee that the government satisfy those who had taken possession of Cherokee lands under the lottery drawing by giving them instead an equivalent from the unoccupied government lands was rejected by the President.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

On the death of George Lord Dacre, the title and estates were claimed by Leonard, the second son of William Lord Dacre, by virtue of an alleged entail on the heirs male of William.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 107, November 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

"It is by the accent chiefly that the quantity of our syllables is regulated; but not according to the mistaken rule laid down by all who have written on the subject, that the accent always makes the syllable long ; than which there cannot be any thing more false ."— Ib. , p. 57.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

We have thought of remedying this last defect by putting the high screen in front of the singers, and close to the minister, as it was before.
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1 by Charles Dudley Warner

With the blade of the try-square or bevel extending across the top edges of the side-pieces, mark off forty-five degree lines at A and B , and a ninety degree line at C , after which square the lines down both inner and outer face of the side-pieces.
— from The Boy Craftsman Practical and Profitable Ideas for a Boy's Leisure Hours by A. Neely (Albert Neely) Hall

with Jacque's drawings, Molière, "Don Quixote," "Le Diable Boiteux.
— from Modern Illustration by Joseph Pennell