ANT: Lifeless, dull, gloomy, unhappy, dejected, depressed, sullen, joyless, melancholy, depressing, dispiriting.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

C H A P. XXVI ——W HAT an unconscionable jointure, my dear, do we pay out of this small estate of ours, quoth my grandmother to my grandfather.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Answers also received from Erin, H. J. M., Dorothy Draggle-tail, "The Woman in White," A. E. C., Fédora, A. H., E. M. C., Little Nose-in-Air , and Alice in Wonderland .
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

—What an unconscionable jointure, my dear, do we pay out of this small estate of ours, quoth my grandmother to my grandfather.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

"I can put up with him for the sake of Captain Jim, Mrs. Doctor, dear, for I liked the old man.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

and the like; their wild whoops and jodels making doleful discord with the groans of us captives within the waggons.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Sir J. Minnes did demand an increase of salary for his being Vice-Admiral in the Downes, he having received but 40s.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

(202) 588-0108 [1] (202) 588-0101 chancery: Diplomatic representation from the US: Ambassador Joseph M. DeTHOMAS (designate) embassy: telephone: [372] 668-8100 FAX:
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

[212] Charles Juste Maréchal Duc de Beauvau (1720-1793), member of the French and
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

Reverend Alfred M. Randolph, afterwards beloved Bishop of the diocese, succeeded Dr. McGuire, and in chronological order came Rev. Magruder Maury, Rev. Edmund C. Murdaugh, D. D., Rev. Robert J. McBryde, Rev. J. K. Mason, Rev. William M. Clarke, Rev. William D. Smith, Rev. Robert J. McBryde, D. D., the second time, and Rev. John J. Lanier, scholar and author, who is the present rector.
— from Historic Fredericksburg: The Story of an Old Town by John T. (John Tackett) Goolrick

James Jackson, Jr., M. D.; died March 28, 1834.
— from The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 04: Songs in Many Keys by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Were it not that the Lord whom we love and serve, is as infinite in his compassions, as he is mysterious in his ways, the days that must come when the excitement of present suffering will be past, and my soul begins to look round and see the extent of its desolations, in a country, too, where there is nothing to comfort or cheer me, would appear to me too dark to be borne, did I not know the Lord hath said, I will not leave you orphans, but I will come unto you; so if he does come and dwell more sensibly within me, even my poor dull and slow-growing spirit may soon be ripened and gathered into his kingdom, there to join my dear departing spirit in the realms of light.
— from Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831 by Anthony Norris Groves