Persuasiveness at its height, Hume tells us, leaves little room for intelligence and consideration.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

pl. of ālesan . ālǣtan 7 to let go, give up, leave, lose, resign, lay aside , Jn ; AO, CP: let, allow : release, pardon, forgive : deliver , Æ.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

(Upland, lowland, lakes, rivers, woods, fields.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

And there is also hereby reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United states, and set apart as reserved forest lands under like limitations, restrictions, and provisions, sections five and six in township fourteen south, range twenty-eight east of Mount Diablo meridian, and also sections thirty-one and thirty-two of township thirteen south, range twenty-eight east of the same meridian.
— from The Yosemite by John Muir

Those who take the view that the books of Scripture have undergone large later revision, see in each of these passages an unfavourable allusion to the king who raised Israel highest amongst the nations, only to precipitate her disintegration and ruin, and who combined the highest service to the centralisation of her religion with the deadliest insult to its supreme claim upon the reverence of the world.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Kings by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

It was so with the Charter Oak; and when this monarch of the forest was unexpectedly laid low, rich and poor, great and small, were gathered to mourn its loss.
— from Among the Trees at Elmridge by Ella Rodman Church

As it was out of the question for us to attend the village school the elders arranged for a neighborhood school at the home of John Roche, who had an unusually large living room.
— from A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

" The Count protested; but Philippe—a man with a bald head and a smirched face, looking like a working blacksmith—placed on the floor a leather bag of tools, from which, having looked at the coffin, and picked with his nail at the screw-heads, he selected a turnscrew and, with a few deft twirls at each of the screws, they stood up like little rows of mushrooms, and the lid was raised.
— from The Room in the Dragon Volant by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Of course there is the woman who shrieks on political platforms and neglects her husband, and lets her children grow up like little ruffians; the woman who wears bloomers and bends over her handle-bar like a monkey on a stick; the woman who wants to hold office with men and smoke and talk like men—alas, that there is that variety of woman—but she is not new.
— from From a Girl's Point of View by Lilian Bell