The rites of the other type are really exorcisms directed against evil bewitchment ( bulubwalata ) of which the natives are much afraid.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The Mercury and Herald likewise retain to this day their respective early devices:
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Semper enim ex divinis id obstat, Regem honorificato; & qui potestati resistit, Dei ordinationi resisit: non alias igitur in eum populo potestas est quam si id committat propter quod ipso jure rex esse desinat.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

But if this great boon was conferred on Rome and Pompilius by their gods, why did they never afterwards grant it to the Roman empire during even more meritorious periods?
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Amidst a mass of other points upon which directions are given, we notice the following: the necessity of keeping secret the matters in course of deliberation; the prohibition to councillors from receiving, either directly or indirectly, anything in the shape of a douceur from the parties in any suit; and the forbidding all attorneys from receiving any bribe or claiming more than the actual expenses of a journey and other just charges.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

ravir , enlever de force; charmer.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

valer t or i be worth, amount to, avail, import, be of importance, carry weight; be good ( para for); r employ ( de ), make use; m worth, importance; —— más be better; más vale better; de qué vale what good does ... do, (of) what good is; ni cosa que lo valga nor anything of the kind; válgame Dios bless me; de tan poco—— who amounts to so little.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

For all that is forbidden to women by the laws that safeguard the legitimacy of offspring, your reason ever denies to your passions.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

ANT: Disinure, relax, enervate, debilitate, dishabituate, soften, melt, mollify, colliquate, vaporize.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

He had never studied the history of Cæsar's death, but he understood the reproach as well as any Roman ever did.
— from The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm by Anthony Trollope

I'm worth about $40,000,000, and I'm getting richer every day.
— from Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry

In this way the love of parents and the reverence for ancestors have unconsciously bribed the reason and put out, or rendered exceedingly dim, the eyes of the mind.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

After Nebuchadnezzar's raid, Egypt declined and sank lower still under the Persians and the Ptolemies, until she became the granary of Rome.
— from The Prophet Ezekiel: An Analytical Exposition by Arno Clemens Gaebelein

It began with the Divinity of Christ, still earlier perhaps with some of the gnostic cosmogonical or theophanic theories, so onward to the Trinity; it expired, or at least drew near its end, as the religion of the Roman East, discussing the Divine light on Mount Tabor.”
— from The Religious Life of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

The religious "establishments did little for the immediate improvement of the colony, yet as points of possession, occupied by persons whose avocations were professedly holy and useful, they laid the foundation on which arose the superstructure of those morals and habits that still and will long characterize the Gallo-Canadians."
— from Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Goodrich

I should like to ride on a railway every day.”
— from The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete by George Meredith

At the stile opposite the Drill Hall where six months before she had rescued Ernie, drenched and dripping, from the police, they turned off into Saffrons Croft in the direction of the Town Hall.
— from One Woman: Being the Second Part of a Romance of Sussex by Alfred Ollivant