ANT: Destitution, barrenness, inanition, exhaustion, lack, drain, nonplus, poverty, sterility.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The theme throughout was plain: the world revolution is coming, by inescapable economic laws discovered by our theory.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Slowly the scene comes back, in every least detail, the smallest sights and sounds of that morning all here, but all thin and faint and frail, spun of the gossamer web of memory.
— from Penguin Persons & Peppermints by Walter Prichard Eaton

In winter dey et sweet 'tatoes, collards, turnips and sich, but I et lak de white folkses.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

Her black hair hung in plaits down her back; and her countenance,—distinguished by a dark waggish eye, a clear complexion, and a turned-up nose, to which might be added a neck both fat and fair, half concealed by a loose kerchief,—radiated with an expression partly wicked and partly charitable, but in every lineament denoting determination and constancy of purpose.
— from Rob of the Bowl: A Legend of St. Inigoe's. Vol. 1 (of 2) by John Pendleton Kennedy

'I beg, I entreat, Lord Delamere, that you will understand that I give no preference to Mr. de Bellozane.
— from Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle by Charlotte Smith

This unusual collection contains about twenty thousand books in European languages, dealing with China.
— from An American Diplomat in China by Paul S. (Paul Samuel) Reinsch

But in everyday life discipline and forms must be observed: hitherto all have been equal compared with the teacher, but now the young must show more respect for the older.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

Le peuple en fut bientôt instruit et le desordre devint extrème.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 1 by George Warburton