Pyotr Petrovitch felt that things were going badly with him.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

SYN: Course, go, speed, hasten, hurry, fly, rush, escape, retreat, pass, proceed, flow, ooze, leak, melt, fuse, confuse, blend, extend, reach, work, operate, traverse, tend, incline.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Paul Petrovitch frowned, and Nikolai Petrovitch looked confused.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile &c. (foolish) 499; airy, shallow; weak &c. 160; powerless &c. 158; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble[obs3], inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin[obs3]; fiddle-faddle, fingle- fangle[obs3], namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

A pacivist party, free from all sentimentality, which forbids its children to wage war; which forbids recourse to courts of justice; which forswears all fighting, all contradiction, and all persecution: for a while the party of the oppressed, and later the powerful party:—this party would be opposed to everything in the shape of revenge and resentment.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

V. steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim|, crib, cabbage, palm; abstract; appropriate, plagiarize.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

pozo well. precedente preceding, foregoing.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

The mouth of some one in his plays so doting, Which many people pass for wits by quoting.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Lighthouses, buoys, and beacons may be erected under the power to regulate commerce, but congress cannot authorize an officer of the government to take private property for such a purpose without just compensation, as the exercise of such a power would be repugnant to the fifth amendment.
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

Wasson believed in telling lies; to save life, to protect innocence, or even to prevent people from obtaining information which they had no right to.
— from Sketches from Concord and Appledore Concord thirty years ago; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Louisa M. Alcott; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Matthew Arnold; David A. Wasson; Wendell Phillips; Appledore and its visitors; John Greenleaf Whittier by Frank Preston Stearns

It was a perfect pose for the "Soul of the Wood," and I begged her to keep it while I rapidly caught the idea and sketched it in roughly in charcoal.
— from Five Nights: A Novel by Victoria Cross

Major Murdoch Smith describes the Persian processes for dyeing patterns red and black in textiles.
— from Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

Back and forth traveled the destroying rays, ploughing parallel furrows from hillside to hillside.
— from Armageddon—2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan

But a revision of the law is recommended principally with a view to a more enlarged cultivation and diffusion of the advantages of such institutions, by providing professorships for all the necessary branches of military instruction, and by the establishment of an additional academy at the Seat of Government or elsewhere.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Nice people put flowers on them, too.
— from Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Romain Rolland

A lunch-basket with thermos flasks was packed in the car, and the party picnicked for their mid-day meal in a wood where primroses were opening their little pale-yellow flowers, and king-cups blazed in a marshy ditch.
— from A harum-scarum schoolgirl by Angela Brazil

he gasped; for he was of slender proportions, and Power’s weight was deceptive, owing to his perfect physical fitness.
— from The Terms of Surrender by Louis Tracy

Now, mine host of the Merry Maypole having taken to himself that last and worst of all possible plagues for the remnant of his days, to wit, a young and somewhat handsome-looking wife, thought it no less meet than reasonable, and no less reasonable than a duty, at all times incumbent, that the before-named helpmate should, if need were, get out of bed and unlatch the wicket whenever good customers were astir; more particularly as the first Dame Dauber, having the fear of a short but tough cudgel upon her, did, at certain times and seasons, when there was the requisite occasion, leave her liege lord to the enjoyment of his warm and luxurious couch, and spread a table for the entertainment of many a night-betrayed traveller.
— from Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby