They believe that illness is in many cases just as curable as the moral diseases which they see daily cured around them, but that a great reform is impossible till men learn to take a juster view of what physical obliquity proceeds from.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

Se -- de , prendre le soin de. charlatanisme , m. , exploitation de la crédulité publique.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

El suelo de Cuba es fecundísimo.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

The same day Clearchus visited the passage of the river, and after inspecting the market there, was returning with a few followers, on horseback, to his tent, and had to pass through Menon's quarters.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

As I am a person, I can hold out no longer: I have wasted my spirits so to-day already that I am ready to sink under the fatigue; and I cannot but have some fears upon me yet, that my son Fainall will pursue some desperate course.
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

'And there sat Arthur on the dais-throne, And those that had gone out upon the Quest, Wasted and worn, and but a tithe of them, And those that had not, stood before the King, Who, when he saw me, rose, and bad me hail, Saying, "A welfare in thine eye reproves Our fear of some disastrous chance for thee On hill, or plain, at sea, or flooding ford.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Surprised and shocked to find that I was only prolonging the suffering of the noble beast, which bore its trials with such dignified composure, I resolved to finish the proceeding with all possible despatch, and accordingly opened fire upon him from the left side.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

“What, is she dead?” cried Theodore; “is it possible!”
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

Struck dumb, confounded.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

SYN: Shrivel, dry, collapse, shrink, blast, blight.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Access to the booking-office is gained by numerous entrances viâ the public subway: two on the Royal Exchange pavement, two at the bottom of Mansion House Place, one at the Poultry corner, and one at Walbrook, one in front of the Safe Deposit City buildings, two each at the corners of Princes Street and Cornhill, and one at St. Mary Woolnoth Church.
— from Tube, Train, Tram, and Car; or, Up-to-date locomotion by Arthur H. (Arthur Henry) Beavan

If General Hunter is in the field, give Sheridan direct command of the 6th corps and cavalry division.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

He was in far too great a hurry to look where he was going; and he tripped over the saucepan, which had been set down casually near the door, and fell full length into the room.
— from The Youngest Girl in the School by Evelyn Sharp

As a result of the efforts of the New York State Dairy Commission, it has been estimated that the sale of imitation butter in this State in 1885 suffered a decrease of about 60 per cent., although the quantity manufactured in the United States showed an increase of 50 per cent.
— from Food Adulteration and Its Detection With photomicrographic plates and a bibliographical appendix by Jesse P. (Jesse Park) Battershall

It must be evident that such discussions can only by accident lead to right results.
— from The Popular Science Monthly, August, 1900 Vol. 57, May, 1900 to October, 1900 by Various