ANT: Unreliable, spurious, false, apocryphal, disputed, exploded, rejected, counterfeit, unfounded, unauthorized, baseless, fabulous, fictitious.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
The swords, which have been [ 60 ] returned by the Tandān, are again used in flourishing and dancing en route .
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston
En las tardes de verano, especialmente cuando la atmósfera pura del Ecuador se encuentra libre de vapores y de nubes, las faldas argentadas de este rarísimo nevado, vistas de lejos, [4] arrebatan el alma, aún de las personas que tienen menos hábito y menos propensiones a contemplar con entusiasmo las obras magnas de la creación.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
They arrived at the Cataract Canyon on the morning of the second day, having visited another part of Bright Angel Gulch for a day en route.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon; Or, The Mystery of Bright Angel Gulch by Frank Gee Patchin
"It's a mercy he didn't fall into the fire," she kept repeating, with a lively and aggressive thankfulness for escape from a danger excessively remote.
— from Double Harness by Anthony Hope
From sensuality men have found and drawn excellent rules of policy, of morals, and of justice.
— from The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal by Blaise Pascal
The Fathers are doubtless excellent reading, but they are safe reading to him only who can read them in the light of the present day.
— from The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker
Since its foundation Guayaquil has been burned several times, and often plundered by pirates; now its commercial condition seems secure from all dangers except revolutions, which are epidemic in Ecuador.
— from The Capitals of Spanish America by William Eleroy Curtis
By this time Hunter had framed a design, either real or pretended, of doing some great thing for the Indians.
— from Curiosities of Human Nature by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
Now Betsey took two silver forks and dipped each round of cream in the chocolate, carefully draining each one before placing on waxed paper.
— from A Little Candy Book for a Little Girl by Waterman, Amy Harlow (Lane), Mrs.
High fever; and doctor earnestly requests you will come immediately."
— from The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann
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