SYN: Lovable, good, kind, benevolent, charitable, delectable, engaging, fascinating, agreeable, lovely, pleading, charming, attractive.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
London: Phillimore & Co., 1899.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
ut prīmum loquī posse coepī, inquam , RP.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane
y también en ciertas partes de Colombia, denominándose suazas , los que de este último país proceden; pero los principales centros de producción están en la primera república nombrada, siendo los más famosos los de Montecristo y Jipijapa.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
10 «Yo soy el caid Hassan-ben-Jussef , siervo de Alah, aunque malamente he sido llamado D. Rodrigo de Acuña por los sucesores de los perros cristianos que, haciéndoles fuerza y violando solemnes capitulaciones, bautizaron con una escoba, a guisa de hisopo
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
¡Oye!—contestó como un rayo la parte contraria.... 20 —¡Ya!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
In Singhalese demonolatry there are seven female demons of lust, popularly called the Madana Yaksenyo.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway
BULWER’S (Sir Edward Lytton) Paul Clifford.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten
At the same Time I am very sensible, that nothing spreads a Paper like private Calumny and Defamation; but as my Speculations are not under this Necessity, they are not exposed to this Temptation.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir
Le petit chose, nouvelle edition simplifies d'apres Alphonse Daudet, par Howard Michell.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1961 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
She went with the girls to make their purchases, showed them how to lay out their money most advantageously for their little pupils, cut out the garments for them when the cloth was brought home, and directed them how to make them.
— from Aunt Kitty's Tales by Maria J. (Maria Jane) McIntosh
The different condition of the water as to purity on the two sides of the river; the difference in temperature; slight differences in the plates, in the solder used, in the more or less perfect contact made by twisting or otherwise; all produced effects in turn: and though I experimented on the water passing through the middle arches only; used platina plates instead of copper; and took every other precaution, I could not after three days obtain any satisfactory results.
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday
THE RURAL LIFE PROBLEM CHAPTER
— from The Rural Life Problem of the United States Notes of an Irish Observer by Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir
You see I mix an exceedingly small quantity of the salt with a little powdered charcoal, in this Wedgwood mortar, and rub them together with the pestle— CAROLINE.
— from Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments by Mrs. (Jane Haldimand) Marcet
Her parents were both natives of New England, and her mother, Betsy Bradford, was a descendant of William Bradford, who came to America on the Mayflower , in 1620, and, after the death of Governor Carver, was elected governor of the Little Plymouth Colony, which position he held for over thirty years.
— from The Women of Mormondom by Edward W. (Edward William) Tullidge
She didn't mean to be hard-hearted, but it had seemed to her like proper condemnation of wrong-doing to treat the Fosters loftily.
— from Betty Leicester: A Story For Girls by Sarah Orne Jewett
But give me a little pleasant conversation now and then, and one good frightening away every night, and I’m sure I’ll have no quarrel with anybody; and I hope nobody hasn’t got none with me.
— from David Blaize and the Blue Door by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
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