If he contents himself in that, he leaves to the witness’s conscience the telling of the truth, and the whole truth; the witness is, in such a case, certainly responsible for one part of the untruthful and suppressed, but the responsibility for the other, and larger part, lies with the judge who has failed to do his best to bring out the uttermost value of the evidence, indifferently for or against the prisoner.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

SYN: Befitting, belonging, suitable, appertaining, consistent, compatible, requisite, decent, graceful.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

ANT: Shorten, abbreviate, curtail, contract, reduce.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

= KEY: Sanction \v.\. SYN: Authorize, countenance, confirm, ratify, [See APPROVE].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The lower classes, which were numerous and poor, eagerly took up the scheme, and continually clamoured round the speakers at the rostra, demanding to have it put to the vote.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

and the like, are considered signs of gross ill-breeding; nor do the politer classes tolerate even such a common complimentary remark as telling a man that he is looking well.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

“From the Park,” she said, and commenced chiding Robert gently, to establish her right to do it with solemnity.
— from Rhoda Fleming — Complete by George Meredith

Interest and duty, though perhaps not entirely synonymous, are certainly closely related.
— from The Positive Outcome of Philosophy The Nature of Human Brain Work. Letters on Logic. by Joseph Dietzgen

All its strange shapes and strong almost cruel colours remain in the records of their prophets; whose lightest phrase seems heavier than the pyramids of Egypt; and whose very words are like winged bulls walking.
— from The New Jerusalem by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

That's what she said in the letter, 'n' I can't deny 's the words sent a cold chill runnin' down my backbone 's I read 'em.
— from Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop by Anne Warner

The effects were most disastrous, but aided by his wife and an elderly man who had remained in their employ, he would patiently recommence scrubbing, sweeping and cleaning, carefully reinstating each object or fragment thereof, in or as near as possible to its accustomed place.
— from With Those Who Wait by Frances Wilson Huard

[639] Many of the heavier articles woven during the war, such as coverlets, counterpanes, rugs, etc., are still, after forty years, almost as good as new.
— from Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama by Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) Fleming

French Revolution having spent itself, or sunk in France and elsewhere to what we see, a certain curiosity reawakens as to what of great or manful we can discover on the other side of that still troubled atmosphere of the Present and immediate Past.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 01 by Thomas Carlyle