Sleep came upon me as it came on many other outcasts, against whom house-doors were locked, and house-dogs barked, that night—and I dreamed of lying on my old school-bed, talking to the boys in my room; and found myself sitting upright, with Steerforth’s name upon my lips, looking wildly at the stars that were glistening and glimmering above me.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
ANT: Dissatisfied, irritated, churlish, unmannerly, morose, austere, grudging.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
The beauty of the Superman came unto me as a shadow.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Many a goodly ox, with many a sheep and bleating goat did they butcher and cut up; many a tusked boar moreover, fat and well-fed, did they singe and set to roast in the flames of Vulcan; and rivulets of blood flowed all round the place where the body was lying.
— from The Iliad by Homer
When they got there they found Telemachus with the stockman and the swineherd cutting up meat and mixing wine with water.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer
The Captain understood me, and signed me to follow him.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
I was bringing it to you as a drink-offering, in the hope that you would take compassion upon me and further me on my way home, whereas all you do is to go on ramping and raving most intolerably.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer
I fail'd not in my trust And oft, while round my neck thy hands were lock'd, From thy sweet lips the half articulate sound Of Father came; and oft, as children use, Mewling and puking didst thou drench my tunic." "This description," observes my learned friend (notes, p. 121) "is taken from the passage of Homer, II ix, in translating which, Pope, with that squeamish, artificial taste, which distinguished the age of Anne, omits the natural (and, let me add, affecting) circumstance."
— from The Iliad by Homer
It is written: ‘Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden.’
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Ye who cannot be justified by the law of Moses, come unto me, and ye shall be justified “from all things from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.”
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
We were trotting past the lake at Maloja when this came upon me, and when I reflected that I owed it about equally to poppa and to Dicky Dod I felt that I could have personally chastised them—could have slapped them—both.
— from A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') by Sara Jeannette Duncan
Hear him calling—rise and obey the call—"Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
— from Old Wine and New: Occasional Discourses by Joseph Cross
But it came upon me all at once!
— from What's Mine's Mine — Complete by George MacDonald
A chill wind came up, moaning among the pines.
— from The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
Suddenly her fingers closed upon mine, and held them with a firm pressure.
— from The Quadroon: Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid
One morning a Mrs. Cooper called upon me and informed me that her husband had shown signs of delusions lately.
— from Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life by Arthur Conan Doyle
Who knoweth when our linkéd life shall end, Since thou art come unto mine arms at last, And all the turmoil of the world is past?
— from The Earthly Paradise: A Poem (Part II) by William Morris
Next Morning, so soon as I awoke, I went to call up my Antagonist.
— from A Voyage to the Moon by Cyrano de Bergerac
I will give you the same consent under mine, assuming the title of her guardian.
— from Henry of Guise; or, The States of Blois (Vol. 2 of 3) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
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