ANT: Fewness, a small number, Individual, paucity, single person.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

XVIII When a raven happens to croak unluckily, be not overcome by appearances, but discriminate and say, “Nothing is portended to me , either to my paltry body, or property, or reputation, or children, or wife.
— from The Enchiridion by Epictetus

A good reader can, in a sort, nestle into Plato's brain, and think from thence; but not into Shakspeare's.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

ig- 1 1 prefix, alternant of the future and subjunctive nonpotential instrumental prefix i- 1 , used with some verb bases referring to mutual actions referring to the person with whom the action is done.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The area round it, which was sufficiently ample, was formed by buildings, generally of a very mean character: the long back premises of a carpenter, the straggling yard of a hackney-man: sometimes a small, narrow isolated private residence, like a waterspout in which a rat might reside: sometimes a group of houses of more pretension.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

It must [ 204 ] be seen, if at all, in those who are radically severed from the conventional aims of the world,—who seek not its wealth, nor its honours, decline its proudest titles, defy its authority, share not its prospects for time or eternity.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Pandare, which that stood hir faste by, 1275 Felte iren hoot, and he bigan to smyte, And seyde, `Nece, I pray yow hertely, Tel me that I shal axen yow a lyte: A womman, that were of his deeth to wyte, With-outen his gilt, but for hir lakked routhe, 1280 Were it wel doon?'
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

He swor hir, `Nay, for he was out of towne,' 570 And seyde, `Nece, I pose that he were, Yow thurfte never have the more fere.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

As soon as, for instance, there is the slightest sign of dislike, or affection, or fear, or hope, or even the thought of the impression which we ourselves are making on him—in short, as soon as anything of a subjective nature is present, the hieroglyphics become confused and falsified.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

A small nail is put through the lever just above A , to act as a fulcrum.
— from Toy-Making in School and Home by M. I. R. (Mabel Irene Rutherford) Polkinghorne

In the deformed stem one of the nerves corresponds to the insertion of a branch, its neighbour is in the adjoining vacant space; hence it results that four nerves correspond to two branches and to two consecutive interspaces, and hence the analogy between a single normal internode provided with its two branches and its four nerves.
— from Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden) Masters

570 He swor hir, 'nay, for he was out of towne,' And seyde, 'nece, I pose that he were, Yow thurfte never have the more fere.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7) — Boethius and Troilus by Geoffrey Chaucer

O, my Juliet, where is the time to be spared for plays, assemblies, and such numerous idle parties of various descriptions?
— from The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. by Isabella Graham

Promise me you will listen to His voice!' 'You're a saint, Nannie; I promise you I will pray, if I have never done so before.
— from The Carved Cupboard by Amy Le Feuvre

He gave himself out as a small noble in pigskin boots, and said that he went with horses to the fairs.
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

And this she did more for Felix's sake than her own, for she resolved that her appearance should not, if possible, jar upon the feelings of one who, she knew, in marrying her, had sacrificed prospects of wealth and worldly happiness for her sake.
— from Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark Day The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton