ANT: Careful, considerate, regardful, attentive, prudent, cautious, circumspect, scrupulous, mindful.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

I read them, and was simply amazed that those small sheets of paper could contain so much youth, purity of spirit, holy innocence, and at the same time subtle and apt judgments which would have done credit to a fine masculine intellect.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

what a dainty, pretty, charming creature she was, this frail baronne, the wife of that gouty, pimply baron, who had abruptly carried her off to the provinces, shut her up, kept her in seclusion through jealousy, jealousy of the handsome Lormerin.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

And ought we not to choose and use the good pleasures and pains? CALLICLES: Certainly. SOCRATES:
— from Gorgias by Plato

of Sum. p. 187. ↑ 23 It is, however, also possible that there may be two “bujangs,” and that we have here a simple case of what philologists call “confluence,” so that the derivation, though quite possible, must not be accepted without reserve.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

He was little more than a year younger than John, but much smaller, paler, and less active and robust; a pettish, cowardly, capricious, selfish little fellow, only active in doing mischief, and only clever in inventing falsehoods: not simply to hide his faults, but, in mere malicious wantonness, to bring odium upon others.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Chirche , sb. church, S, S2, W2, PP, CM; churche , S, S2, PP; cherche , S2, C3; kirke , S, S2, P; kyrke , P, Voc., S3; kirc , S2; circe , S, Voc.; cyrce , S.—AS. cyrce ; cp.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Warwick Wroth [84] tells us that visitors usually purchased cheese cakes, syllabubs, tea, coffee and ale.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

If, for example, it were desired to heat a piece of steel to 800° C. for a given purpose, a paste containing common salt might be smeared on its surface before placing in the furnace.
— from Pyrometry: A Practical Treatise on the Measurement of High Temperatures by Charles R. (Charles Robert) Darling

It was speaking to me through that wrecked home of Grandma Stuart’s—through the man’s knife, the child’s ring, the door-key; and through the pitiful, clever, crocheted stuff in the glass case in the County House; and through David, and through all them that we were trying to fix up a club for—like a pleasant plaster for something that couldn’t be touched by the remedy.
— from Neighborhood Stories by Zona Gale

[Pg 26] CHAPTER III CHISHOLM'S PERSUASION Commodore Chisholm sat in his smoking-room and knitted his brows while Wyndham talked.
— from Wyndham's Pal by Harold Bindloss

The other great Italic philosophers just named, living, as we have seen, in the previous century, can scarcely have thought of Athens as a centre of Greek thought.
— from A History of Science — Volume 1 by Edward Huntington Williams

Ne the sterre : 'Nec quae summo uertice mundi Flectit rapidos Ursa meatus, Numquam occiduo lota profundo, Cetera cernens sidera mergi, Cupit Oceano tingere flammas.'
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7) — Boethius and Troilus by Geoffrey Chaucer

"True as you live, wife; and now what is to be done?" "Perhaps Charlotte can suggest, for if our fraternal strife has not awakened as much patriotism in her heart as in yours, in the present case her interest should be greater."
— from Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale by Ida Glenwood

In a mountain in this province, called Chonta, several veins of cinnabar were discovered, and the hope of extracting considerable quantities of quicksilver from them elated the inhabitants for some time: the working of the mine, however, has been discontinued, but for what reasons I could never learn; the specimens of ore which I saw were certainly very rich.
— from Historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America (Vol 2 of 3) Containing travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results by Stevenson, William Bennet, active 1803-1825

Meerschaum Pipes, Cigar Cases, Stems, Porte Monnaies, &c. &c. of the finest qualities, considerably under the Trade Prices. J. F. VARLEY & CO., Importers.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 134, May 22, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Alexander Herzen, [49] who favoured the Panslavistic cause, could still [Pg 133] speak, retrospectively, of Russian Czars as being "Robespierres on horseback"—an expression of so doubtful a value that it rather reminds us of the pseudo-revolutionary language of Napoleonism than of the purer Democratic principles.
— from The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various