ANT: Displace, confound, complicate, derange, disorder, discompose, eject, refuse, reject, disturb.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

ANT: Dissertation, disquisition, essay, ratiocination, rigmarole, yarn, circumlocution.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Ah!’ ‘Deep enough,’ retorted Ralph, ‘to know that I shall need all the depth I have, when men like you begin to compliment.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

As when sharp Boreas blows abroad, and brings The dreary winter on his frozen wings; Beneath the low-hung clouds the sheets of snow Descend, and whiten all the fields below: So fast the darts on either army pour, So down the rampires rolls the rocky shower: Heavy, and thick, resound the batter'd shields, And the deaf echo rattles round the fields.
— from The Iliad by Homer

“Thank God, the doctor,” exclaimed Raskolnikov, relieved.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Again, I see her dark eyes roll round the church when she says ‘miserable sinners’, as if she were calling all the congregation names.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

“my ideas”; a = able to be expressed as a Syllogism; b = about Bath-buns; c = coming true; d = dreams; e = really ridiculous h
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

I've seen a dying eye Run round and round a room In search of something, as it seemed, Then cloudier become;
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

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— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

To the marketplace they went, the other school children trotting along in the rear of the little procession, and gazing with almost as much pride and awe at their lucky comrades as at the dreaded enemy, Red Rex.
— from Kisington Town by Abbie Farwell Brown

Howlett, Jr. Penville Tecumseth Simcoe, S. R. Edward T. Turner * Percé Percé Gaspé J. E. Tuzo Perch Station Sarnia Lambton John Irwin Perrytown Hope Durham, E. R. R. A. Corbett * Perth Drummond Lanark, S. R. Thomas Cairns Petawawa Petawawa Renfrew Charles Young * Peterboro’ North Monaghan Peterboro’ S. J. Carver Petersburg Wilmot Waterloo, S. R. John Ernst Peterson’s Ferry Sophiasburg Prince Edward Paul Peterson Petrolea Enniskillen Lambton Patrick Barclay Petworth Portland Frontenac E. L. Carscallen Peveril Newton Vaudreuil Alexander Morrison * †
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1866 by Canada. Post Office Department

"I look to Nature, and behold My life's dim emblems rustling round, In hues of crimson and of gold— The year's dead honors on the ground.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII, October 1851 by Various

The unknown débutante , Etta Romney, received a lukewarm welcome from the audience; but all admitted the grace of her attitudes, the charm of her voice, and the earnestness she brought to her assistance.
— from The Lady Evelyn: A Story of To-day by Max Pemberton

dis—dīrigō, ere, rēxī, rēctus , to guide, steer, direct .
— from Selections from Viri Romae by C. F. L'Homond

James Cook Millbank Mornington Perth W. Rutherford Mill Bridge Tudor Hastings, N. R. John Bull Mill Brook Cavan Durham, E. R. Richard Howden Mille Isles Mille Isles Argenteuil John Pollock Mille Roches Cornwall Town of Cornwall S. H. Moss Mille Vaches Saguenay Mill Grove Flamboro’, West Wentworth, N.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1864 by Canada. Post Office Department

To avoid the current the steamer suddenly began to run so close beside the moored ships that the continuous echo of all her sounds—the flutter of her great wheels, the seething of waters, the varied activities of her lower deck—came back and up to the three voyagers with a nearness and minuteness that startled the girl and drew her glance; but just as her dancing eyes returned reproachfully to the youth the big bell at her back pealed its signal for landing and she sprang almost off her feet, cast herself into the nurse's bosom, and laughed more inexcusably than ever.
— from Gideon's Band: A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable

Then a magpie was seen to rise briskly to his feet; his dark eye rolled roguishly, as he unfolded with his beak a huge sheet of paper scribbled all over with writing and read out in a dry, rasping voice— 184 “We, Clerk of the Court, &c., &c., do hereby certify that the appellants, to wit M. Narcisse Tourtereau and his consort, Mme.
— from Birds and Beasts by Camille Lemonnier

But with the first step inside the door the girl stopped short, folding her hands over her eyes as if they were dazzled. 'Endlich?' repeated Rollo.
— from The Gold of Chickaree by Susan Warner

Seated at his desk, examining reports, Richelieu toyed with a cat that lay on his knees, while two others played on a rug at his feet.
— from The Bath Keepers; Or, Paris in Those Days, v.2 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume VIII) by Paul de Kock