sévir , punir avec rigueur; exercer des ravages.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

"Some of these had brass works and seconds pendulums and ran eight days, and others were thirty-hour clocks with works of wood.
— from Christopher and the Clockmakers by Sara Ware Bassett

It still possesses a rounded ecclesiastical doorway, built of solid blocks of stone, and the walls, which were white originally, are stained green with age.
— from Brittany by Dorothy Menpes

But they do not answer the purposes of the daily press in large cities, where from twenty thousand to sixty thousand impressions of a single paper are required every day.
— from Popular Technology; or, Professions and Trades. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Edward Hazen

It seems to me the very fact that the church has not proven them, made such people as Robert Elsmere doubt them even as possible of fulfillment."
— from The Right Knock A Story by Helen Van-Anderson