me hubiera hecho esta pregunta hace dos años, le hubiera contestado que, a fuerza de trabajar con Internet (como director de sistemas de información del CNRS)
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

SYN: Lessen, reduce, contract, curtail, dwarf, decrease, subside, shorten, abate, retrench.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

This head also, when doubting cripples dance, Doth show from fears they have deliverance." THE DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

And indeed the poor girl, whose pregnancy had swelled and stoutened every part of her, even to her face, and the vertical, squared outlines of her cheeks, did distinctly suggest those virgins, so strong and mannish as to seem matrons rather, in whom the Virtues are personified in the Arena Chapel.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

laudantur ōrātōrēs veterēs quod crīmina dīluere dīlūcidē solērent , V. 2, 191, the orators of old are admired ‘because they were always clear in explaining accusations away.’
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

ANT: Cabinet, conclave, cabal, dispersion, desertion, solitude.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

I hardly heard Mrs. Fairfax’s account of the curtain conflagration during dinner, so much was I occupied in puzzling my brains over the enigmatical character of Grace Poole, and still more in pondering the problem of her position at Thornfield and questioning why she had not been given into custody that morning, or, at the very least, dismissed from her master’s service.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

A repentant Barnave Triumvirate, our Rabauts, Duports, Thourets, and indeed all Constitutional Deputies did strain every nerve: but the Extreme Left was so noisy; the People were so suspicious, clamorous to have the work ended: and then the loyal Right Side sat feeble petulant all the while, and as it were, pouting and petting; unable to help, had they even been willing; the two Hundred and Ninety had solemnly made scission, before that: and departed, shaking the dust off their feet.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Both Doris and her dark-eyed cousin Dot, Dorn’s sister, had wished to accompany Dorn and his friends on their exploring trip to the Citadel.
— from The Rope of Gold A Mystery Story for Boys by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

Count de Dunois signed himself "the bastard of Orleans," and letters were long preserved of the duke of Normandy, king of England, which were signed "William the Bastard."
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 02 by Voltaire

Well, Caesar died dat same identical night child did (and she gub me a wink); 'sunthen disagreed wid him also that he eat.'
— from Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

An officer who was in Archangel during the summer on Graves Commission service after the American units had been withdrawn, reports that speculators for a song bought up great bales of the old Kerensky and Nickolai currency supposed to be cancelled, dead, defunct stuff, and when there was a considerable evacuation of central Russians who had been for months refugees in Archangel, this currency came out of hiding, and its traffickers realized a handsome profiteerski by selling it to the returning people at sixty to the pound sterling, for in interior Russia the old stuff was still in circulation.
— from The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Joel R. (Joel Roscoe) Moore

[82] Cette interruption nous fixe donc aussi bien que le commencement de toutes les taches du haut, sur l’attribution que nous devons en faire à la première aile, et non à la seconde, et le peu qui reste de ces divers dessins sous cette dernière, si toutefois il en reste, doit se confondre avec elles, sans contribuer beaucoup à nous égarer.
— from Fossil Butterflies Memoirs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, I. by Samuel Hubbard Scudder

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— from Surfing the Internet: An Introduction Version 2.0.2 by Jean Armour Polly

I tell you, my dear old Chator and my dear old Nigel, you have the greatest opportunity imaginable for energy, for living and bringing life to others, if only you'll not sit down and be content because you've got the children and can fill the church for Evening Prayer with that colorless, dreary, dreadfully sorrowful crowd I saw to-night."
— from Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie

A layer of shell, often very thin, seems to be generally deposited over the whole internal surface of the several valves, at the same time that the marginal zones are added; so that the only essential difference in the growth of the external covering, in Cirripedes as compared with ordinary Crustaceans, is that the old shell is not cast off, but adheres to the outside of the new shell, and that the margins are added to (in certain definite directions) slowly yet not continuously, instead of the whole being formed at a single period.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin