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

He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning.
— from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

By now Herzl would have been pleased to let the East African project disappear from the agenda; it was clear that the English government was not greatly interested and was seeking a way out; but the devious route of political action, once started, could not so easily be halted; Herzl found himself chained to a political reality.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

" "Upon my word," said Mr. Dashwood, "I believe you are perfectly right.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Modesty is the name given here by men to the exactions of aristocratic pride run mad.
— from On Love by Stendhal

A possible reason why bachelors seem to make such good hosts is that only those who have a talent for it make the attempt.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The woman sprang from her bed, smiling and joyful, and perfectly restored to health.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Andrea, who had often stayed there in his rides about Paris, recollected the Bell and Bottle inn; he turned around, saw the sign by the light of a reflected lamp, and having dismissed the child, giving him all the small coin he had about him, he began knocking at the door, very reasonably concluding that having now three or four hours before him he had best fortify himself against the fatigues of the morrow by a sound sleep and a good supper.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

It is a pretty regular wind, in the summer time.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

She simply felt that he was a genius, and he hadn't a penny," Alice protested, reproachful and hurt.
— from The Beloved Woman by Kathleen Thompson Norris

[Footnote 38: Several additional particulars respecting the islands here spoken of, are given on the authority of the missionary account, and other works, to which it is unnecessary to refer particularly.--E.]
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr

He had seen tears on the Schoolmaster's lean, swarthy cheeks and Deirdre's face lifted to his with a penitent radiance, and tear-wet eyes, shining.
— from The Pioneers by Katharine Susannah Prichard

A careful examination of the oldest copy extant of ‘The Miners’ Laws and Privileges,’ regarded, as Mr. Wyrrall tells us, writing in the year 1780, “as the Magna Charta of our miners and colliers,” incontrovertibly proves that it belongs to this period.
— from The Forest of Dean: An Historical and Descriptive Account by H. G. (Henry George) Nicholls

"Not I. Well, no matter; they may crush me if they please with their designs by Worth, but I defy them to have a prettier ring than mine," smiling at her new toy as it still lies in the middle of her hand.
— from Molly Bawn by Duchess

In less than a moment, however, the keepers had recovered themselves; and, hurrying the wounded behind, were rushing on to close with their adversaries before they could reload, when a reinforcement of eleven or twelve strong men appeared behind the small party of the gipsies, and Pharold, rushing forward, thrust Dickon vehemently back, exclaiming, "Mad fool!
— from The Gipsy: A Tale (Vols I & II) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

She lived in an old-fashioned house, long and low, with quaint dormer-windows set in a peaked roof of red tiles.
— from A Vanished Hand by Sarah Doudney

'Ah whence hath come this fatal shaft—against a poor recluse like me, Who shot that bolt with deadly craft—alas!
— from Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems by Henry Hart Milman