= KEY: Pause \v.\. SYN: Cease, suspend, intermit, forbear, stay, wait, hesitate, demur, stop, desist.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

That Falk was only one of several Concealed Superiors is further suggested by the intriguing correspondence of Savalette de Langes.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

She was so carelessly secure in friendship, so empty of any thought beside, that she could and did say things to him which said by any other woman in the same situation would have instantly led to lovemaking.
— from The Pastor's Wife by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Assassination of the Baroness de Vibray, mysterious death——" "The Baroness de Vibray was not assassinated, she committed suicide," interrupted Fandor sharply.
— from Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas by Pierre Souvestre

"I put her ould spinning-wheel there in the corner, where she could see it 'fore she went.
— from Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road by R. Henry (Robert Henry) Mainer

He was one step farther on towards his goal, which was nothing less than becoming a great newspaper proprietor and running the political world from a swivel chair somewhere in Fleet Street.
— from Happy House by Hutten zum Stolzenberg, Betsey Riddle, Freifrau von

How were you to know that the column of grossly unfair rancour which The Daily Argus poured out on your book two days later, when you were sailing serenely over the Atlantic, would make that same clerk send in four separate orders to the “House” during the week?
— from One Day's Courtship, and The Heralds of Fame by Robert Barr

Chocolate Sandwich No. 2 Cut stale bread in thin slices, cut slices in fancy shapes, butter each slice and spread with Chocolate Mixture.
— from Lowney's Cook Book Illustrated in Colors by Maria Willett Howard

Athens was in danger of exhausting her resources in the performance of this ungrateful task, unless she could succeed in fomenting some revolution in the vast possessions of her adversary which should endanger the existence of his empire, or which, at any rate, should occupy the Persian soldiery in constantly recurring hostilities against the rebellious provinces.
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 9 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero