My father is so cut up—home is not like itself.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

ANT: Mild, feeble, inanimate, subdued, controlled, unimpassioned, passionless, cold, stoical, gentle, weak, mitigated.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The foreground is somehow chewed up, and there is something, you know, not the thing....
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

[Footnote: I say “cradle” using the common word for want of a better, though I am convinced that it is never necessary and often harmful to rock children in the cradle.]
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I did not dare lie down on my bed for fear it should creep under my pillow.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

After consulting our Dictionary, we choose “Some y are x ”, which, translated into concrete form, is “Some chickens understand French.” (3) “All diligent students are successful; All ignorant students are unsuccessful”.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

“We have not determined how far it shall carry us,” said Mrs. Gardiner, “but, perhaps, to the Lakes.”
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

If the day ever comes when swift, reliable and authoritative communication with the entire people shall be necessary for public action in the interests of public safety, the nation may find itself sadly crippled unless a new confidence in the daily Press can be built up.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

The later Christian sense of δόγμα, meaning ‘doctrine’, came from its secondary classical use, where it was applied to the authoritative and categorical ‘sentences’ of the philosophers: comp. Just.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

"We have not quite determined how far it shall carry us," said Mrs. Gardiner, "but perhaps to the Lakes."
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

“Certainly—I think not.” “Nay, but certainly you must not, for I shall call upon them to-day, and assure them they may expect you.
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

Ruling Ourselves A helpful precept, when one is failing in some crucial undertaking from his very over-anxiety to succeed, is to replace the ambition to succeed by a determination to pass the crisis unruffled, whether one succeeds or fails, “He that ruleth himself is greater than he that taketh a city,” and incidentally if we rule ourselves we are far more likely than otherwise to take the city, if that be possible at all.
— from How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science by Irving Fisher

Means for insuring greater caution and discrimination as regards the licensing of houses for the reception of the insane; for imposing some check upon the licensing of new houses; and for conferring powers to close those already opened for paupers so soon as public asylums shall be erected, or at any other time, if not properly conducted.
— from Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke

The two armies met by the side of Lake Regillus, and there was fought a battle the story of which reads like a tale from the Iliad of Homer; for we are told not of how the armies fought, but of how their champions met and fought in single combats upon the field.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 11 (of 15), Roman by Charles Morris

Tall for his age (he was but five years old), his dark hair, parted over a high, broad forehead, fell in sable curls upon his shoulders; his large black eyes, now keen and piercing as the young eagle's, now soft and melting as the dove's.
— from The Rector of St. Mark's by Mary Jane Holmes

They comprehended also, under the title of fetichism, what Max Müller distinguishes from it so carefully under the names of physiolatry , or the worship rendered to natural objects other than gimcracks, and of zoolatry , or the worship of animals.
— from The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau

Waggons, even those called 'flies,' may be overtaken, and although dead beat, and sore of foot, I soon came up with the eight plaited-tailed animals which were dragging the mountain, second only in size to the Juggernaut idol.
— from The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook by Theodore Edward Hook

I’m told that my poor father is sadly cut up about her—attends on her night and day, and humours her every whim.
— from Fighting the Flames by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Maria worked hard at her braiding—that was open to anybody's observation; but there were less obvious flutings and ironings down in the kitchen, and adjusting of ribbons and flowers in secret consultations up-stairs.
— from What She Could by Susan Warner

And they held the petty force the government put in the field in supreme contempt until they learned by bitter experience the illimitable power of the United States.
— from Indian Fights and Fighters: The Soldier and the Sioux by Cyrus Townsend Brady