ANT: Trend, diverge, ascend, deter, rise, indispose, disincline.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Semyon kept picking out the driest and shortest way, first by a meadow, then by the backs of the village huts; but in one place the peasants would not let them pass, in another it was the priest’s land and they could not cross it, in another Ivan Ionov had bought a plot from the landowner and had dug a ditch round it.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Its earliest form is found in the Çatapatha Brāhmaṇa , where the notion of being born again after death and dying repeatedly is coupled with that of retribution.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

The friar was the local inspector of public instruction [ 263 ] and ever vigilant to detect and destroy radical ideas.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Dirt and desolation reign in the wide hallway, and danger lurks on the stairs.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

In conjunction with Dr. Dunlop and Dr. Rees, it was the intention of Mr. Fothergill to establish at York a Museum of Natural and Civil History, with a Botanical and Zoological Garden attached; and a grant of land on the Government Reserve between the Garrison and Farr's Brewery was actually secured as a site for the buildings and grounds of the proposed institution.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Schuld discharge of a debt Begleitbrief accompanying letter begleiten accompany begleitende Werbung accessory advertising begleitet von accompanied by begleitet von Handelspapieren accompanied by commercial documents begleitet von Zahlungspapieren accompanied by financial documents Begleitpapiere accompanying documents Begleitpapiere accompanying papers Begleitschreiben covering letter Begleitschreiben covering note begrenzen; Grenze limit begrenzt haftende Teilhaberschaft limited partnership begrenzte Garantie limited guarantee begrenzte Haftung limited liability begrenzte Mittel limited means begrenzter Kredit limited credit begrenzter Markt limited market begrenzter Scheck limited cheque Begrenzung limitation Begriffsbestimmungen definitions begründen found begründen give reasons Begründer originator begründet justified begründet eine feststehende Verpflichtung constitutes a definite understanding begründet keine Verpflichtung does not constitute any undertaking begünstigen; Gunst favour Begünstigter beneficiary Begünstigter eines Kreditbriefes beneficiary of a letter of credit Begünstigungsklausel benefit clause begutachten pass an expert opinion begutachten; ein Gutachten liefern render an expert opinion begütert of considerable means Behälter; Abfallbehälter bin Behälter; Container container behandeln treat Behandlung; Bearbeitung handling behaupten assert behaupten claim behaupten maintain Behauptung assertion Behauptung; Anspruch; Forderung claim Behausung; Wohnungswesen housing beherrschendes Unternehmen controlling company behindern encumber behindern; Behinderung handicap behindert handicapped behindert; belastet encumbered Behinderter handicapped person Behinderung; Belastung encumbrance Behörde board Behörden public authorities bei Anlieferung durch den Verkäufer when tendered by the seller bei Abschluß des Kaufvertrags at the time of the contract of sale bei anziehenden Preisen; anziehenden Kursen in a rising market bei der Ausübung dieses Rechts in the exercise of such liberty bei der Beschaffung der Dokumente in obtaining the documents bei der Besorgung irgendwelcher Dokumente in ob
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Whereas, on the contrary, the same materials taken in gradually, day after day, recurring in different contexts, considered in various relations, associated with other external incidents, and repeatedly reflected on, grow into such a system, form such connections with the rest of the mind's fabric, lie open to so many paths of approach, that they remain permanent possessions.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

One of the greatest difficulties encountered by a general in conducting an army through difficult and dangerous roads, is that of providing food for them.
— from Hannibal Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

Caspar elevated his eyebrows and clutched his beard: Miss Brooke made a curious sound, something like a snort; and Maurice flushed a deep and dusky red; indications which all annoyed Lady Alice, although she did not quite know what they signified.
— from Brooke's Daughter: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

My division, at dark, resumed its camp of the night before, as did other divisions of the army.
— from Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer

The apartments, the exterior corridor, the pillars with figures in medio relievo, decorated with serpents and lizards, and formed with stucco, besides which are statues of men with palms in their hands, in the act of beating drums and dancing, resemble in every respect those observable at Palenque.”
— from The Mayas, the Sources of Their History Dr. Le Plongeon in Yucatan, His Account of Discoveries by Stephen Salisbury

In the fourth place, the argument, even for what it is worth, is purely deductive; and deductive reasoning in such a case as this—where the phenomena [75] are enormously complex and our ignorance unusually profound—is always precarious.
— from An Examination of Weismannism by George John Romanes

It was a foul thing to do, a horrible, blundering, clumsy murder, done slowly; but even so, it was all over before, with a scream that rang like the battle-cry of a Highland chief, and set the murderous heads up in wild alarm, the skua came shooting, twisting, turning, diving, and darting right into the heart of the crowd.
— from The Way of the Wild by F. St. Mars

Handled by an alchemist of genius, it contained in its slender volume the strength of the novel whose analytic developments and descriptive redundancies it suppressed.
— from Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

It took me out of dark and desolate reality into an unreal but happier region.
— from Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter