SYN: Try, assay, test, establish, demonstrate, ascertain, argue, show, confirm, examine, substantiate, make trial of, verify, ascertain.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

I did as desired, full of sweet thoughts at the exquisite delights
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The Englishman seemed to appreciate this extreme delicacy, made his bow and went away, proceeding with a characteristic British stride towards the street mentioned.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The stone we rolled From the giants’ dwelling, So that all the earth Did rock and quake.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

A gallant knight shows to advantage bringing his lance to bear adroitly upon a fierce bull under the eyes of his sovereign, in the midst of a spacious plaza; a knight shows to advantage arrayed in glittering armour, pacing the lists before the ladies in some joyous tournament, and all those knights show to advantage that entertain, divert, and, if we may say so, honour the courts of their princes by warlike exercises, or what resemble them; but to greater advantage than all these does a knight-errant show when he traverses deserts, solitudes, cross-roads, forests, and mountains, in quest of perilous adventures, bent on bringing them to a happy and successful issue, all to win a glorious and lasting renown.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He still recognizes the enormous influence of music, in which every youth is to be trained for three years; and he seems to attribute the existing degeneracy of the Athenian state and the laxity of morals partly to musical innovation, manifested in the unnatural divorce of the instrument and the voice, of the rhythm from the words, and partly to the influence of the mob who ruled at the theatres.
— from Laws by Plato

[pg 155] And say to Bharat: “See thou treat The queens with all observance meet: What care the king receives, the same Show thou alike to every dame.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Such temperatures are therefore extremely dangerous.
— from The Automobile Storage Battery: Its Care And Repair by Otto A. Witte

If only 492 rifles are taken from 4,500 enemy dead, this discrepancy shows that among these enemy dead were numerous peasants from the country.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 4 by Various

He said of 'the late Mr. Baxter' (Andrew Baxter, not Richard Baxter), that 'a few pages of his reasoning have not only more sense and substance than all the elegant discourses of Dr. Berkeley, but infinitely better entitle him to the character of a great genius.' [255] It is of Warburton that Churchill wrote in The Duellist (Poems, ed.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by James Boswell

But, as in ancient Egypt, so in modern England, the treatment of disease in special organs has been divided amongst special therapeutists; and the ear does not fail to benefit by being better understood.
— from The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson

She often used to trot over in this way, in an ekka, to Amritsar, on a road which caused many bumps and aches to most people’s heads and arms and bodies; but she would never allow that the shaking of twenty-four miles of such travelling as this ever did her any harm.
— from A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker by Agnes Giberne

They made their way to England with some trepidation at this early date, [290] for Henry VIII., in spite of his breach with Rome, had but little sympathy with the Protestants, although he refused on several occasions to surrender fugitive heretics to the French king.
— from The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period by K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley

These two hawks have been shot, trapped, and their eggs destroyed unsparingly: they remain numerous just the same.
— from The Life of the Fields by Richard Jefferies

The unction of prayer sucked out of your soul, your relish for the Sacraments gone, a dry rot consuming your spiritual life, a nausea for supernatural things, a taste every day becoming more clayey, and an increasing appetite for grosser excitements.
— from The Young Priest's Keepsake by Michael J. Phelan