The latter hummed a tune, selected a pair of gloves and, choosing a dozen cigarettes, placed them in a case.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

ANT: Resistance, obstruction, opposition, counteraction, antagonism, drawback, clog, preventive.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The queen of Navarre was sitting with her ladies in the painted bow-window, facing the gate of the second court, as De Croix passed through it—He is handsome, said the Lady Baussiere—He has a good mien, said La Battarelle—He is finely shaped, said La Guyol—I never saw an officer of the horse-guards in my life, said La Maronette, with two such legs—Or who stood so well upon them, said La Sabatiere—But he has no whiskers, cried La Fosseuse—Not a pile, said La Rebours.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

La misma falta casi absoluta de claridad producía el efecto de un ilusorio movimiento en las masas de árboles, que se extendían al parecer, iban perezosamente y regresaban enroscándose, como el oleaje de un mar de sombras.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The mind of man very easily slides into an error of the former sort; but it is very hard to imagine, that the effect of an idea so universally terrible in all times, and in all countries, as darkness, could possibly have been owing to a set of idle stories, or to any cause of a nature so trivial, and of an operation so precarious.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The largest coffee plantation, owned by the Companhia Agricola de Cazengo, produced in 1913, a record year, nearly 1,500 tons.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

They seem to have been called customs, as denoting customary payments, which had been in use for time immemorial.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Left alone, under those circumstances, a devouring curiosity pushed me on to make some discoveries for myself.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

he inquired of Wardle, when that gentleman was thoroughly out of breath, by reason of the indefatigable manner in which he had converted his legs into a pair of compasses, and drawn complicated problems on the ice.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

"On the contrary," was the reply; "but even courage and determination cannot prevail against such overwhelming odds."
— from The Baron's Sons: A Romance of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 by Mór Jókai

Then came a dull, coughing, prolonged report, and the voices on deck broke out.
— from The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Morgan Robertson

What a contrast between these clean and decently clothed people and the blacks that we had seen in the seaports, the only kind of native we had met up to now!
— from On the Edge of the Primeval Forest Experiences and Observations of a Doctor in Equatorial Africa by Albert Schweitzer

Mr. Sheriff Hardscrabble, always eager to get every one into jail he can, inasmuch as it pays him twenty-two cents a day clear profit on each and every person confined, says: "A hard customer.
— from Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

It permeates the soil, and if in sufficient quantity may be effective in destroying the phylloxera; but its cost and dangerous character prevent it from being generally recommended.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 by Various

‘One moderate big ‘un could convey a dozen champagne, perhaps,’ observed the colonel, musing, ‘to my office.
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

Then he added, "Et pendant que tu y es, citoyen, apporte des cigares pour nous et des cigarettes pour les dames."
— from An Englishman in Paris: Notes and Recollections by Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam

But in several States the distinction between state banks and stock savings banks is of the most unsubstantial character, since the stock savings banks carry on the business of a commercial bank, receiving demand deposits payable on check, and discounting commercial paper.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips