= KEY: Despair \v.\. SYN: Despond, faint.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

After the Mozart Symphony in D major, I made all the musicians move from their places to make room for an imposing choir, which had to sing Palestrina's Stabat Mater, from an adaptation of the original recitative, which I had carefully revised, and Bach's Motet for eight voices: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied ('Sing unto the Lord a new song'); thereupon I let the orchestra again take its place to play Beethoven's Sinfonia Eroica, and with that to end the concert.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

People declared that she got money from various simply disposed persons, under pretence of getting them confidential appointments under Government.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

WHEREAS, In President Hayes' last message, he makes a truly paternal review of the interests of this republic, both great and small, from the army, the navy and our foreign relations, to the ten little Indians in Hampton, Va., our timber on the western mountains, and the switches of the Washington railroads; from the Paris Exposition, the postal service, the abundant harvests, and the possible bulldozing of some colored men in various southern districts, to cruelty to live animals and the crowded condition of the mummies, dead ducks and fishes in the Smithsonian Institute—yet forgets to mention 20,000,000 women robbed of their social, civil and political rights; therefore Resolved , That a committee of three be appointed to wait upon the President and remind him of the existence of one-half the American people ....
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Distinguíase por una lozanía sorprendente que aminoraba 5 en apariencia el valor numérico de sus años, y vestía siempre de luto, a pesar de que su viudez era ya cuenta muy larga.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

= KEY: Term \v.\. SYN: Denominate, name, call, style, characterize, designate, entitle, [See DENOMINATE].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

“Are you aware, Stepan Trofimovitch?…” “Comment, vous savez déjà mon nom?”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

O a combien de fois ay je vengé sang de vostre seigneur Jesu-christ par ton puissât moyen, et mis à mort les ennemys de la nouvelle loy de grace en ce nouveau temps acceptable
— from Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Louisa Stuart Costello

In the Ephemeridæ they lie in planes approaching the vertical, slightly diverging from each other towards their extremities.
— from Old Flies in New Dresses How to Dress Dry Flies with the Wings in the Natural Position and Some New Wet Flies by Charles Edward Walker

You poor, hot Madre!” Vere sat down by her mother and put one arm round her.
— from A Spirit in Prison by Robert Hichens

CHAPTER VII — Some Definitions and Histories 79 Romantic Story of Osteopathy’s Origin—An Asthma Cure—Headache Cured by Plowlines—Log Rolling to Relieve Dysentery—Osteopathy is Drugless Healing—Osteopathy is Manual Treatment—Liberty of Blood, Nerves and Arteries—Perfect Skeletal Alignment and Tonic, Ligamentous, Muscular and Facial Relaxation—
— from Quacks and Grafters by Anonymous

You see, prince, I’ll tell you privately, Evgenie and ourselves have not said a word yet, we have no formal understanding, we are in no way bound on either side, but the word may be said very soon, don’t you see, very soon, and all this is most injurious, and is meant to be so.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

On the very same day the King accepted a treaty for the partition of Austria.
— from Frederick the Great and the Rise of Prussia by William Fiddian Reddaway

"I am very sorry, Douglass, that I cannot accompany you as far as New York.
— from Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

For we may be quite sure that it was not as a representative of vegetation in general that the victim suffered death.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12) by James George Frazer