prôton men tois klydôsin, hoi dê kai pepisteuntai tois iatrois arrhôstou koilias einai symptômata kai kata logon pepisteuntai; eniote men gar elachista prosenênegmenôn ou gignontai peristellomenês akribôs autois tês gastros kai sphingousês pantachothen, eniote de mestê men hê gastêr estin, hoi kly|| 153 dônes d' hôs epi kenês exakouontai.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Offensive alliances, of course, are usually directed against some particular enemy; defensive alliances against anyone from Page 116
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

And I have, in spite of everything, preserved such a mysterious, overwhelming fear of events that the sight of the postman entering my house makes a shiver pass every day through my veins, and yet I have nothing to be afraid of now.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

SYN: Determined, decided, steadfast, fixed, steady, constant, persevering, stout, pertinacious, energetic, dogged, stout-hearted, inflexible, undaunted, undeviating, unflinching.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Eȝ-sen , sb. presence; eighesene , dat. , MD; æhseone , MD; ecsene , MD; exsene , MD.—Cp.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

When the Roman army, having been divided into six parts, each [division] relieved the other in the battle one hour in six in rotation, and the paucity of numbers exposed the same individual townsmen, wearied as they were, to a contest ever new, they at length yielded, and an opportunity was afforded to the Romans of entering the city.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

contra against, contrary to; over against; m. see pro; en—— de, en—— a , against, unfavorable to.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The shepherds of Scythia, who could not read, have left to the vanquished the task of describing their conquests, and we have great difficulty in crediting the accounts of the old Hungarian chronicles, when they describe the unheard-of cruelties by which the Moguls disgraced their victories; [270] but several provinces entirely depopulated and changed into [324] deserts, the ruins of two thousand churches, fifty destroyed cities, the traditions of these great disasters transmitted from age to age, and the terror that pervaded Europe, are evidences so worthy of faith, that we cannot reject them.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 2 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

The tie of blood between herself and the Leslies of Rood Hall was, as we shall see presently, extremely distant.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VII, December 1850, Vol. II by Various

In the second part, "Excellent Directions for Cookery," The Closet Opened was largely drawn on.
— from The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Kenelm Digby

Ce prince étoit, comme son père, entouré de trois personnes assises.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

suorum suffraganeorum sibi subditorum universorum, prælatorum pariter et cleri procuratorum, convocationem isto anno apud Londonias semel et secundo, propter gravamina et oppressiones, de die in diem per summum pontificem et D. Henricum Regem Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ irrogatas.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

But the masses of the Southern people evidently do not take this view of the war they are waging against the Government which has so long protected them, and under which they have acquired all the strength they are now ungratefully using to overthrow it.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Episcopus noster accepit thuribulum, et thurificauit eum; ac sibi praedictus Episcopus dedit benedictionem suam.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt

I sett before her the sinful Condition of her Nature, and I charged her to pray in Secret Places every Day.
— from Child Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

"That all seems possible enough, Drummond," Captain Ritzer said; "but what about our uniforms?"
— from With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty