advice noun
“among strangers, remote from the eye and advice of my father. . .”

assist verb; faithful adjective; helpmate noun
“a good and faithful helpmate assisted me much by attending the shop; we throve together and have ever mutually endeavored to make each other happy”

business noun; poor adjective
“the business of a printer being generally thought a poor one”

byword noun
“we ourselves shall become a reproach and byword down to future ages”

degree noun
“I considered my giddiness and inconstancy when in London as in a great degree the cause of her unhappiness”

deject verb
“I pitied poor Miss Read’s unfortunate situation. She was generally dejected, seldom cheerful, and avoided company”

difficulty noun
“We ventured, however, over all these difficulties, and I took her to wife September 1, 1730”

expense noun (archaic: meaning consumption)
“The sun is not wasted by expense of light”

fell verb; hurry verb (archaic: meaning to impel to rash or precipitate action); intrigue noun; low adjective; way noun
“. . . that hard-to-be-governed passion of youth hurried me frequently into intrigues with low women that fell in my way”

goad noun
“French forts and…armies so near us will be everlasting goads in our sides”

lodging noun
“had a regard for me from the time of my first lodging in their house”

mark noun
“the officers, being on horseback, were . . . picked out as marks”

outlaugh verb (archaic: meaning to make fun of)
“his apprehensions of being outlaughed”

render verb (archaic: meaning to present (oneself) at a place)
“the most distant members . . . may probably render themselves at Philadelphia in fifteen to twenty days”

stifle verb (archaic: meaning to withhold from circulation)
“the papers he thought of too much value to be stifled, and advised the printing of them”