monument, hatchment[obs3], slab, tablet, trophy, achievement; obelisk, pillar, column, monolith; memorial; memento &c. (memory) 505; testimonial, medal; commemoration &c. (celebration) 883. record, note, minute; register, registry; roll &c. (list) 86; cartulary, diptych, Domesday book; catalogue raisonne[Fr]; entry, memorandum, indorsement[obs3], inscription, copy, duplicate, docket; notch &c. (mark) 550; muniment[obs3], deed &c. (security) 771; document; deposition, proces verbal[Fr]; affidavit; certificate &c. (evidence) 467. notebook, memorandum book, memo book, pocketbook, commonplace book; portfolio; pigeonholes, excerpta[obs3], adversaria[Lat], jottings, dottings[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
Joseph’s pit, S. Citee , sb. city, MD, C2, C3; cyte , MD; syte , Prompt.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew
The Prophet adds: ‘I have heard of other places where people have had money from the fairies, sometimes silver sixpences, but most commonly copper coin.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
Fundulus diaphanus --Killifish: top minnow Catostomus commersonii --Common sucker: white sucker Identification of Specimens While many of the fishes in a given section are easily recognizable, there are in every water fishes which, on account of their small size, rarity, retiring habits, or close similarity to other fishes, are unknown to the average boy.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America
V. make compensation; compensate, compense[obs3]; indemnify; counteract, countervail, counterpoise; balance; outbalance[obs3], overbalance, counterbalance; set off; hedge, square, give and take; make up for, lee way; cover, fill up, neutralize, nullify; equalize &c. 27; make good; redeem &c. (atone) 952.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
When I returned home, I told M. de Bragadin of the expected arrival of the father of my charming C—— C——, and the kind old man wrote to him immediately in my presence.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
My System Muller Rural Hygiene Brewer Lippincott CHIVALRY Adaptability Ellen E. Kenyon Warner Hinds, Noble & Co. Adventure Among Red Indians Hyrst Lippincott Age of Chivalry Bullfinch An Iron Will Orison Swett Marden Crowell A Skilled Workman W. A. Bodell Revell Co. Aspiration and Achievement Frederick A. Atkins Revell Co. Aspirations and Influence H. Clay Trumbull Sunday School Times Book of Famous Verse Agnes Repplier Boy's King Arthur Lanier Boy's Life of Captain John Smith Johnson Careers of Danger and Daring Cleveland Mofett {382} Character Shaping and Character Working H. Clay Trumbull Sunday School Times Character the Grandest Thing Orison Swett Marden Crowell Co. Cheerfulness as a Life Power Orison Swett Marden Crowell Co. Daniel Boone, Backwoodsman Forbes Lindsay Lippincott Duty Ellen E. Kenyon Warner Hinds, Noble & Co. Duty Knowing and Duty Doing H. Clay Trumbull Sunday School Times Economy Orison Swett Marden Crowell Co.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America
JANSEN, M C CLURG, & CO., 117, 119 & 121 Wabash Av., Chicago, Ill.
— from Life of Wagner Biographies of Musicians by Ludwig Nohl
It may be admitted that Bracton does not recognise just that kind of title which later lawyers knew as appendancy, does not recognise that a man can claim common by showing merely that he is a freeholder of the manor.
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
The crews of Adair’s and Murray’s boats were, however, in so great a hurry that they fired before Mr Cherry could countermand his order, and then on they dashed.
— from The Three Midshipmen by William Henry Giles Kingston
The dominant feeling both in East and West was one of dislike to change, which we may conveniently call conservatism.
— from The Arian Controversy by Henry Melvill Gwatkin
“Cease, cease to ask her name,” he writes of a young lady at the Wells at Tunbridge, whom he salutes with a magnificent compliment— Cease, cease to ask her name, The crowned Muse's noblest theme, Whose glory by immortal fame Shall only sounded be.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray
MSS. cryede, cried, criedyn.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7) — Boethius and Troilus by Geoffrey Chaucer
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