SYN: Secure, unendangered, secured, sure, protected, impregnable, trustworthy, certain.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Oh, show us still some path that is not all Unclean; for now our captain's eyes are dim With dread, and the whole ship must follow him.
— from Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Sophocles

Leaving still unspecified several sterling parts of any model fit for the future personality of America, I must not fail, again and ever, to pronounce myself on one, probably the least attended to in modern times—a hiatus, indeed, threatening its gloomiest consequences after us.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

He carried the cord along the channel to the corner, where he set up some small piping.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

An armament was fitted out under the command of the experienced Pontgravé; he was commissioned by the king to make further discoveries in the St. Lawrence, and to establish a settlement upon some suitable position on the coast.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 1 by George Warburton

She had long learned the value of her bright eyes, and tried experiments in coquetry, in corpore vili , upon rustics and country squires, until she should prepare to conquer the world and the fashion.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

The form and size of the trunk exclude it from sawmills, but it has some special uses: Spools, shoe pegs, and hoops.
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson

At her banter, Barabant started up so suddenly [Pg 32] that one of the sous which he had been regarding meditatively slipped from his fingers, bounded on the roof, rolled along the gutter, and disappeared in the water-hole.
— from In the Name of Liberty: A Story of the Terror by Owen Johnson

Together they descended to the kitchen, and Jemima, the cook, furnished them with some uncooked steak, some potatoes, butter, material to make cakes, and other necessaries.
— from A Little Florida Lady by Dorothy C. (Dorothy Charlotte) Paine

"This is a little idyl of humble life and enduring love, laid bare before us, very real and pure, which in its telling shows us some strong points of Welsh character—the pride, the hasty temper, the quick dying out of wrath....
— from A Captain in the Ranks: A Romance of Affairs by George Cary Eggleston