ANT: Big, bulky, large, enormous, huge, monstrous, full-sized, long, full, developed, much, important, grave, serious, momentous, liberal, generous, noble, high-minded, handsome.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

"I'll tell you the whole story, and thank you for drowning me; I am above you now, I am really very rich.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I should have lost my time in trying to cure them of their weakness; I should not have succeeded, for they would have laughed in my face, deplored my ignorance, and the result of it all would have been my dismissal.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And yet, perhaps, Only some few dark moments, into which Imagination, once lit up within
— from Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

The notion haunts their heads, that when The soul goes forth from dying men, It enters worm, or bird, or beast, As Providence or Fate is pleased;
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

In her pamphlet The Will Profile she presents an analysis of twelve volitional traits: revision, perseverance, co-ordination of impulses, care for detail, motor inhibition, resistance, assurance, motor impulsion, speed of decision, flexibility, freedom from inertia, and speed of movement.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

"And if you'd please not to say as I've been to speak to you, for my son 'ud be very angry with me for demeaning myself, I know he would, and I've trouble enough without being scolded by my children."
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Then in a few days Margaret is hemmed in with her little army against the river Severn, and the last act of the tragedy is enacted at Tewksbury.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, June 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

There are numberless periodicals of this sort, but perhaps among those of the first rank and those which especially give definite helps for the boy-and-girl life of the farm may be mentioned Wallaces’ Farmer , Des Moines, Iowa, the Farmer’s Voice , Chicago, Illinois, and the Farmer’s Guide , Huntington, Indiana.
— from Farm Boys and Girls by William A. (William Arch) McKeever

“This is the good side of our independence and faute de mieux it serves; those who know no better do not miss what might be.
— from The Mystery of the Sea by Bram Stoker

She was always looking, as it were, for "dead men in the woods.
— from The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Howbeit, we come at last safe to Madge’s door, and there found daft Madge in a great chair afore the fire, propped up of pillows, and old Madge her grandmother sat a-sewing, with her horn-glasses across her nose, and by her old Isaac Crewdson , that is daft Madge her grandfather of the other side.
— from Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt

I'll be four days makin' it.'
— from Injun and Whitey to the Rescue by William S. Hart

Well, of course I was a terror to my enemies, used to scare 'em into fits, and I suppose it was one of those very fellows that got me into this fix, dreamed me into it one night, you know, only he got me and my steed mixed.
— from The Wonderful Bed by Gertrude Knevels

The haste of the flight had prevented the couple from doing much in the way of bringing needed garments, and the children, who were in their night clothes, suffered considerably.
— from The Campers Out; Or, The Right Path and the Wrong by Edward Sylvester Ellis

"A too pungent epigram followed by a fatal duel, makes it convenient to seek eclipse.
— from The Maid of Honour: A Tale of the Dark Days of France. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Lewis Wingfield