V. be accordant &c. adj.; agree, accord, harmonize; correspond, tally, respond; meet, suit, fit, befit, do, adapt itself to; fall in with, chime in with, square with, quadrate with, consort with, comport with; dovetail, assimilate; fit like a glove, fit to a tittle, fit to a T; match &c. 17; become one; homologate[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

“Lyamshin, please sit down to the piano; you can give your vote from there when the voting begins.” “Again!” cried Lyamshin.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The region round the little town of Kjoge is very bleak and cold.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

June 23.—Very bad again; cold and shivering, and then a violent headache.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

This morning we were visited by a Clatsop man who brought with him three dogs as a remuneration for the Elk which himself and Nation had Stolen from us Some little time Sence, however the dogs took the alarm and ran off; we suffered him to remain in the fort all night.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

One of the assistants of the English consulate was threatened with personal violence by a couple of two-sworded men as he was entering a tea-house on the hill at Kanagawa.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

these rapids are much worse than they were fall when we passed them, at that time there were only three difficult points within seven miles, at present the whole distance is extreemly difficult of ascent, and it would be impracticable to decend except by leting down the empty vessels by a cord and then even the wrisk would be greater than in taking them up by the same means.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

On these occasions, I am almost tempted to exclaim with the listening maid in La Fontaine, "Je voudrois bien avoir ce qui manque.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The amateurs of art crowded thither as they crowd at present to the Villa Borghese, and complained even then of such treasures being confined to the palaces and country-houses of the men of quality, where they could be seen only with difficulty and after special permission from the possessor.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

This was kept in vibration by a current of electricity from five "gravity" cells.
— from Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light Made at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis by Albert A. (Albert Abraham) Michelson

Their theory may look well on paper, and their glittering generalities may draw adherents from the ranks of the illiterate and the vicious, but a condition of society in which there are no masters and no authority can only lead to chaos.
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack

Popular opinion was, no doubt, very bitter against Christianity.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

To the Teacher: Have the pupils memorize the following lines from Longfellow's The Village Blacksmith : And children coming home from school Look in at the open door; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
— from Stories Pictures Tell. Book Two by Flora L. (Flora Leona) Carpenter

He acts like he's full of bellicose veins, but anybody can outgame him.
— from Cappy Ricks Retires: But That Doesn't Keep Him from Coming Back Stronger Than Ever by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

That not only must this version be a Catholic one, but it must also have been approved by the proper spiritual authority.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

They soon had to traverse one of those narrow vales between a couple of rocky "divides," which are commonly halved themselves by a more or less broad ribbon of water, and which terminate in a basin, a series of steps, or a "cutoff."
— from The Red River Half-Breed: A Tale of the Wild North-West by Gustave Aimard

"I can't think of anything but the ill weather waiting for us outside and all the people I know in Kensington," said the tall woman, voicing bluntly and concisely what the rest of us were feeling.
— from Rebel women by Evelyn Sharp

Nothing is to be found which has been duly investigated,—nothing which has been verified by a careful examination of proof."
— from Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the community. by J. (James) Gillkrest