ANT: Relax, inhibit, persuade, entice, allure, solicit, touch, skim, graze, free, liberate, ease, avoid, relieve.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

He is far more virtuous than they make him out, far less schooled in sin, far less enterprising and ruthless.
— from In Defense of Women by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

And finally there were disappointed Darwinists who expressed fear lest ecclesiastical and reactionary points of view should derive favorable material from the conclusions arrived at in my report.
— from Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten) A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology by Oskar Pfungst

But here in Görlitz, far from the firing line, even a rational man, when he is troubled, begins to imagine things.
— from Atlantis by Gerhart Hauptmann

My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise— The son of parents passed into the skies.
— from The Flower of the Mind by Alice Meynell

It was late in the afternoon of the second day when rough Brother North Wind decided that he had shown his strength and fierceness long enough, and rumbling and grumbling retired from the Green Meadows and the Green Forest, blowing the snow clouds away with him.
— from Old Granny Fox by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

me future period may have to adopt the poet's elevated strain: "My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise-- The son of parents pass'd into the skies."
— from Female Scripture Biography, Volume I by F. A. (Francis Augustus) Cox

He preached in the fields, under trees which are still known by the expressive name of "Gospel Oaks"; he spoke in the abandoned mining pits of Cornwall, at the corners of the streets in cities, on the docks, in the slums; in fact, wherever he could find listening ears and responsive hearts.
— from The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery

M IDWAY in the eastern part of Ohio lies the coal country; round-topped hills there begin to show themselves in the level plain, trending back from Lake Erie; afterwards rising higher and higher, they stretch away into Pennsylvania and are dignified by the name of Alleghany Mountains.
— from Solomon by Constance Fenimore Woolson