ANT: Unhandsome, dirty, sneaking, pettifogging, scrubby, dastardly, recreant, ungenerous, ungentlemanly.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Madame, you are deceived,” said Porthos; “she is simply a duchess.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

[708] of reason too oft, and precipitate in their actions, read all our histories, quos de stultis prodidere stulti , Iliades, Aeneides, Annales, and what is the subject? Stultorum regum, et populorum continet aestus.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Then not without difficulty, she poured some milk into the bottle in which they had brought their wine.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Such plate, my dear, such plate!' said the Jew: rubbing his hands, and elevating his eyebrows in a rapture of anticipation.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

All these the first day Sir Palamides struck down to the earth.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

"L' altra vedete ch'ha fatto alla guancia Della sua palma, sospirando, letto.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Sing the sweet song of other days, Serenely placid, safely true, And o'er the present's parching ways The verse distils like evening dew.
— from The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete by Oliver Wendell Holmes

For this purpose, the deep, somewhat porous soils, characteristic of arid regions, are unusually well adapted.
— from Dry-Farming : A System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by John Andreas Widtsoe

"Steady, old man," Dick Staunton puffed steadily at his pipe, and looked at the body lying beside them.
— from No Man's Land by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile

All through that idle afternoon we strayed Upon our proposed travel well begun, As loitering by the woodland’s dreamy shade, Past shallow islets floating in the sun, Or searching down the banks for rarer flowers We lingered out the pleasurable hours.
— from Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 2 by Robert Bridges

As we have no eastern poles from which we can reckon our distance, some particular spot, or line, must be fixed upon for that purpose.
— from Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Mrs. (Jane Haldimand) Marcet