ANT: Disagreeable, churlish, unsociable, distant, reserved, ungenial, cold, inaccessible, unneighborly, solitary.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

My departure was therefore fixed at an early date; but, before the day resolved upon could arrive, the first misfortune of my life occurred—an omen, as it were, of my future misery.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This is, however, though in a minor degree, one of the vexatious claims of feudality of the French system, known under the term noçages , where the seigneur or his deputy presided, and had the right to be placed in front of the bride, “et de chanter à la fin du répas, une chanson guillerette.”
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Et là, on touche surtout à de la pédagogie: je crois que les internautes ne sont pas sensibilisés à ces questions et qu'une première démarche pédagogique peut permettre de régler un certain nombre de problèmes.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Notre docteur rencontre une connaissance à la porte même de son client.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

My departure was therefore fixed at an early date, but before the day resolved upon could arrive, the first misfortune of my life occurred—an omen, as it were, of my future misery.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Pero, me diréis, ¿los bogotanos no pasean, no tienen un punto de reunión, un club, una calle predilecta, algo como los bulevares, nuestra calle Florida, [1] el Ringstrasse de Viena, el Unter den Linden de Berlín, El Corso de Roma, el Broadway de New York, o el Park Lane de Londres?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The desired day came, and now the ninth Dawn rode up clear and bright behind Phaëthon's coursers; and the name and renown of illustrious Acestes had stirred up all the bordering people; their holiday throng filled the shore, to see Aeneas' men, and some ready to join in contest.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

sera une sorte de jargon dénaturant la belle langue anglaise, je veux dire un anglais amoindri à l'usage des relations uniquement commerciales.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

He saw, in fact, pigs being roasted at a commonplace sort of fire, made for the purpose, of logs and sticks and coal and things, whereas everybody knows that no pig can be duly roasted unless chimney stacks and window-casings and front-door handles be mixed up with the combustibles.
— from The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson

We forget that a chasm extends between it and ourselves, in which lie all those dark, rude, unlettered centuries, around the birthtime of Christianity, as well as the age of chivalry and romance, the feudal system, and the infancy of a better civilization than that of Rome.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

It would be satisfactory if these details rested upon contemporary evidence.
— from A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

Ditto Hanna, ditto Morgan, ditto Harriman, ditto Rogers, unless checked.
— from Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser

In the end the Spanish Commissioners yielded, and no mention was made in the treaty of any debt resting upon Cuba.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 4 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

But if he does ring up Central, we’ll have to risk it and jump in and claim a wire’s crossed somewhere.”
— from The Wire Tappers by Arthur Stringer

It would be satisfactory if these details rested upon cotemporary evidence; in which case the next question would Page 4 {4} be that of the relations of the immigrant tribes to each other as Germans , i.e. the extent to which the Jute differed from (or agreed with) the Angle, or the Saxon, and the relations of the Angle and the Saxon to each other.
— from The English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

Then he discreetly ran under cover of the weeds and grass until he thought it was safe to take wing, after which he flew to the other side of the dear Old Briar-patch and there began to whistle as only he can.
— from The Adventures of Bob White by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

Diminished rate under cold 0.101µ " " Enhanced rate under warmth 0.737µ " " Moving plate method: Experiment 54.
— from Life Movements in Plants, Volume I by Jagadis Chandra Bose