ANT: Ease, console, soothe, please, rejoice, exult, gratify, alleviate.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The description of old age is finished, and Plato, as his manner is, has touched the key-note of the whole work in asking for the definition of justice, first suggesting the question which Glaucon afterwards pursues respecting external goods, and preparing for xviii the concluding mythus of the world below in the slight allusion of Cephalus.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The description of old age is finished, and Plato, as his manner is, has touched the key-note of the whole work in asking for the definition of justice, first suggesting the question which Glaucon afterwards pursues respecting external goods, and preparing for the concluding mythus of the world below in the slight allusion of Cephalus.
— from The Republic by Plato

Those four statements may very well be all traceable to a common source; nor can they at all lay claim to any very high credibility, seeing that for the earlier period before the commencement of the -acta diurna- the statements as to the natal years of even the best known and most prominent Romans, e. g. as to that of Pompeius, vary in the most surprising manner.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

Old and comparatively modern conceptions of the deities, pious efforts to veil or to explain away what seemed crude or profane, the puerilities of ritual, half-conscious strivings in the direction of monotheism or pantheism, clan or family prejudices, rough etymological guesses, and many other elements of doubt combine to confuse what can never have been clear.
— from Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

The lovers of music raise their eyes meantime to the unwieldy figure of Handel, whose personality remained essentially German although the greater part of his life was spent in England, at the Court of the first three Georges.
— from Westminster Abbey by Smith, A. Murray, Mrs.

[26] “Preparation and Vulcanisation of Plantation Para Rubber” (Eaton, Grantham, and Day), Bulletin No. 27, F.M.S. Department of Agriculture; Gorter and Swart, Bulletin No. 6, West Java Expt. Station.
— from The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan

[27] “Preparation and Vulcanisation of Plantation Rubber” (Eaton, Grantham, and Day), Bulletin No. 27, F.M.S. D
— from The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan

To President Theodore Roosevelt, White House, Washington President Roosevelt expressed great appreciation of this letter and said that Mr. Washington had taken the election in just the way he would have wished him to take it.
— from Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization by Lyman Beecher Stowe

The proverb reads, “Every girl at 14 must be either a wife or a widow.”
— from Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2. No. 16, January, 1921 America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy by Various