SYN: Dogma, article, principle, creed, doctrine, opinion, belief, persuasion.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

As Brad expected, the fire control center consisted of dozens of consoles, scopes, directional and power control devices, and clusters of computer terminals.
— from The Universe — or Nothing by Meyer Moldeven

‘It would be an obvious loss to art,’ he says, ‘should the making of lace by hand become extinct, for machinery, as skilfully devised as possible, cannot do what the hand does.’
— from A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies by Oscar Wilde

If I find a child or infant with a temperature of 103° to 105°, short, dry, and painful cough, dyspnœa, rapid pulse, great thirst, or vomiting, with dry crepitation in any part of the lung tissue, I order it rolled up in a blanket or sheet coming out of hot water, and in thirty minutes change it to warm, dry blankets, and soon the little fretful, worrying sufferer would rest in a quiet, peaceful sleep.—
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 by Various

“When you didn’t come home to supper, I began 95 to worry,” said dear Aunt Polly, carrying Dot, big girl as she was.
— from Four Little Blossoms at Brookside Farm by Mabel C. Hawley

Patty did not work in the mills now; Margaret had refused to let her go back, saying that she wanted lots of sewing done, and Patty could do that instead.
— from The Turn of the Tide: The Story of How Margaret Solved Her Problem by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter