Usage examples (7)

• US automakers have always been behind the times - when they're not, and build something like GM's electric car, they kill it off themselves, lest they be too forward-looking or...
• I liked an occasional visit to our little club, where the exciseman, of fifty years standing was our oracle in politics; the attorney, of about the same duration, gave us...
• But, though a truly Herculean achievement, regarded as that of a single man unindebted to public support, and uncheered by even any very general sympathy in his labors,...
• She well knew how odious this very marriage had rendered her unhappy sister; she understood and sympathized in the religious sentiments of the great mass of her subjects; she...