SYN: Absorb, gorge, engross, devour, appropriate, exhaust, consume, imbibe, engulf, brook.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

But one day after I had succeeded in surmounting a grave ethical doubt of hers she suddenly saw the light and related the history of the compulsive act.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

A few moments made up for an unfair start, and gave each dog his relative place.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

They thought that he who cut a bough in such a grove either died suddenly or was crippled in one of his limbs.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

I am, with sincere and great esteem, dear Sir, your most obedient, and most humble servant.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 3 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

Lord TYRCONNEL made a motion for bringing in a bill for the better cleansing and paving the streets of Westminster, and the liberties thereof; in support of which motion he spoke to the following purpose:— Sir, though the grievance which I am about to lay before the house is not of the most formidable or dangerous kind, yet as it is such as grows every day greater, and such as every day endangers the l
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I by Samuel Johnson

'A few words' on the schools; an obiter dictum on the stations; a good, energetic, Demosthenic philippic against some scandal.
— from My New Curate by Patrick Augustine Sheehan

Of course he had been shocked and grieved, even disappointed that it was too late to announce his success to the old man; but he had not been able to resist telling Hilda, a gawky, pale-faced girl of eighteen, that his story had been taken.
— from Poor Relations by Compton MacKenzie

All seasons are good, except during a panic.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

Bacon could unite the study of divine philosophy with professional labors as a lawyer, also with the duties of a legislator; but the instances are rare where men have united three distinct spheres, and gained equal distinction in all.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09: European Statesmen by John Lord