ANT: Fullness, plethora, repletion.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

“I was hired by your brother, and there’s a full peeper rider on my contract.”
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

The queen had at first positively refused; but at length became afraid that the duke, if exasperated, would commit some folly.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Sometimes after an hour of apathy, my strange and beautiful companion would take my hand and hold it with a fond pressure, renewed again and again; blushing softly, gazing in my face with languid and burning eyes, and breathing so fast that her dress rose and fell with the tumultuous respiration.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The first and fourth points require our especial attention.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

6 We next come to a further phase, represented in a Cuneiform tablet, which must be quoted at length:— Days of storm, Powers of Evil, Rebellious spirits, who were born in the lower part of heaven, They were workers of calamity.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

It's dangerous to set foot in a Forbidden Planet -- rarely do I escape with my wallet intact.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

= KEY: Counterfeit \n.\. SYN: Cheat, trick, juggle, fraud, artifice, fabrication, pretense, ruse, sham.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The flowers stand at the top of the stalks, consisting of five or six broad leaves, of a fair purplish red colour, with many yellow threads in the middle standing about the head, which after rises up to be the seed vessels, divided into two, three, or four crooked pods like horns, which being full ripe, open and turn themselves down backwards, shewing with them divers round, black, shining seeds, having also many crimson grains, intermixed with black, whereby it makes a very pretty shew.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

She had fine red stockings, and white shoes, her hair powdered and face painted red, that was always before black.
— from Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson

Only in one or two cases, and for particular reasons, has the loss of the real letter been supplied by the first draft.
— from Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams

A moment later, the team coming up proved to be a freshly painted runabout, drawn by a fine bay horse in trim harness, driven by the average stable boy; while beside him sat a smooth-faced, keen-eyed man, rather under middle age, dressed in a spotless light suit, tan shoes, lilac shirt, opalesque tie, finished above by a Panama hat pinched into many dimples.
— from People of the Whirlpool From The Experience Book of a Commuter's Wife by Mabel Osgood Wright

A few particulars relative to organs, in addition to those at col. 260 , may be interesting to musical readers.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

He adopted the Copernican doctrine, which Lord Bacon’s inferior aptitude for physical research led him to reject.
— from Curiosities of Science, Past and Present A Book for Old and Young by John Timbs

Some such thoughts and feelings passed rapidly through the minds of Harry and Hamilton while the accountant struck a light and kindled a roaring fire of logs, which he had cut and arranged there on a previous occasion.
— from The Young Fur Traders by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The same year (October 8, 1674), the general court of Connecticut, meeting at Hartford, [13] gave specific instructions regarding the allowance for post riders; from Rye to Hartford, 12 s. for the expenses of the horse, and - 7 - 20 s. for those of the man, with the addition of 8 d. from the “midle of October to the last of Aprill,” and the special injunction that “hyred” horses should not be deprived of their allowance.
— from The Early History of the Colonial Post-Office by Mary Emma Woolley

will that spectacle ever depart from my dreams, as she rose and sank upon her seat, sank and rose, threw up her arms wildly to heaven, clutched at some visionary object in the air, fainting, praying, raving, despairing!
— from Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas De Quincey

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has a different, operational definition for a Palestinian refugee: "a person whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948 and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict."
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

He believed that history proves that there are certain "immortal elements of human nature,"—education, fatherland, liberty, association, family, property, religion; and the theorist, who offends any one of these, is in conflict with God's law.
— from The Life of Mazzini by Bolton King