SYN: Transact, effect, pass, perform.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
SYN: Tract, essay, paper, pamphlet, disquisition, brochure, dissertation, tractate, monograph, article.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
He says that every possible permutation of the four bells must be rung once, and once only.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
The number of different ways in which the three sheep may be placed so that every pen Pg 218 shall always be either occupied or in line with at least one sheep is forty-seven.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
The rule is to test step by step to eliminate possible problems.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno
Finally I may say that every possible precaution against publicity has been taken."
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
she stepped in with a cold calm smile and put up the signs herself, and swept those English pioneers promptly out of the country.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain
"Agriculture alone was not sufficient to establish permanent property; positive laws were needed, and magistrates to execute them; in a word, the civil State was needed.
— from What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
On the whole she felt sure that even "Peebles' Perfect Pick-me-ups" would not suit her nearly as well as her own particular remedy.
— from Up the Hill and Over by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
And I suppose that even physical pain takes on an edge when it not only enforces a pang but whispers a phrase.
— from The Rhythm of Life, and Other Essays by Alice Meynell
The covered-up plant, however, produced altogether twenty-five spontaneously self-fertilised seeds; the exposed plant producing fifty-five seeds, the product, no doubt, of cross-fertilisation.
— from The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin
If upon your arrival I should venture to meet you there, be not, I beseech you, offended or alarmed; I shall take every possible precaution neither to be known nor seen, and I will stay with you only three minutes.
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 by Fanny Burney
There was but a single coin in it; and that, by an ingenious device, was suspended in the centre, so that every piece popped in at the chimney would clink upon it in passing through Charlie's little hole into Charlie's little stocking hanging innocently beneath.
— from Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce
Our guards were doubly vigilant, while the Sheriff took every possible precaution.
— from The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Embracing His Life, Ministry, and Travels by Parley P. (Parley Parker) Pratt
"The wall, which ran along unequal eminences, most of which were high and difficult of access, some low and open to approach along level vales, was furnished by him with every kind of warlike engine, as seemed suitable to each particular place.
— from Stories of Invention, Told by Inventors and their Friends by Edward Everett Hale
The sellers of these machines will agree with me when I say that every progressive planter ought to have one of these artificial aids to use during those depressing periods when the rain continually streams from the sky.
— from Cocoa and Chocolate: Their History from Plantation to Consumer by Arthur William Knapp
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