ANT: Modest, diffident, inquiring, vacillating, cautious, undemonstrative.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Changes in crests must also be disregarded where the differences in emblazonment are merely differences in varying designs of the same crest.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

If there's a power above us (And that there is, all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works), He must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy."
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

" "At four marks do I value meat, cart, and mare," quoth the Butcher, "but if I do not sell all my meat I will not have four marks in value.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

The Use Of Speech The generall use of Speech, is to transferre our Mentall Discourse, into Verbal; or the Trayne of our Thoughts, into a Trayne of Words; and that for two commodities; whereof one is, the Registring of the Consequences of our Thoughts; which being apt to slip out of our memory, and put us to a new labour, may again be recalled, by such words as they were marked by.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

As long as we do not have the Press of the whole world in our hands, everything you may do is vain.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

Kate, my darling is very unhappy.
— from Ombra by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

In these latter, which made for years the chief of my diet, I very early fell in love (almost as soon as I could spell) with the Snob Papers.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 16 by Robert Louis Stevenson

“Miss Devereux is very greatly disturbed over the good intentions of your grandfather in placing her name in his will.
— from The House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson

Fra quanti aspri martir, degliosa io vivo! ” page 304 : San Mano that had formerly been its property.
— from Italy, the Magic Land by Lilian Whiting

By midnight moons, o'er moistening dews, In vestments for the chase arrayed, The hunter still the deer pursues, The hunter and the deer—a shade!
— from Initial Studies in American Letters by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

Drunkenness, and even moderate drinking, is very rare among them.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

I believe Mr. Doctor is very Busy; but I'll rap this time with Authority.
— from The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce by William Mountfort