ANT: Powerful, effective, cogent, useful, solid, substantial.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Rosario entraba una llave en la invisible cerradura, y abría cuidadosamente la 115 puerta en cuyo umbral se habían sentado.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The 143 pleasant exhaustion, consequent upon such disturbance produced by the play of the affections, is an enjoyment of our well-being arising from the restored equilibrium of the various vital forces.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

He travelled extensively abroad, and the illustrated works descriptive of the countries visited by him (Switzerland, the Bosporus and the Danube, Syria and Palestine, Egypt, Canada, United States, &c.) obtained great success with the public, the engravings being from sketches by his own pencil.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Atrebates to Bedlis Vol. 1 Part 3 by Various

Was it merely an antiquarian fashion or had the Persians earlier come under strong Babylonian influence and preserved the old forms which had died out in their native home?
— from Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns

Few parts of the plateau escaped coming under Spanish rule, but the white conquerors, like their Inca predecessors, stopped short when they reached the dense forests and steep valleys, eroded by wildly rushing rivers, which cover the eastern slope of the great mountain region.
— from The South American Republics, Part 2 of 2 by Thomas Cleland Dawson

Poor Emma came up, smiling a wavering smile that was on the edge of tears.
— from Mary Gray by Katharine Tynan

"Monsieur, "Vous m'obligerez sensiblement, en acceptant la babiole que je joins ici comme une marque de l'estime, et de la consideration parfaite que je vous porte, et comme un souvenir d'un ami qui jamais ne finèra d'etre.
— from Historical Record of the Fourth, or Royal Irish Regiment of Dragoon Guards. Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685; and of Its Subsequent Services to 1838 by Richard Cannon

Our fishing, which proved excellent, carried us so far to the west that we no longer could see the Coldwater.
— from The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs

"Monsieur, "Vous m'obligerez sensiblement en acceptant la babiole que je joins ici, comme une marque de l'estime et de la considération parfaite que je vous porte, et comme un souvenir d'un ami qui jamais ne finera d'être, "Monsieur, "Votre très humble et très dévoué serviteur, "Charles Pr.
— from Historical Record of the First, or the Royal Regiment of Dragoons Containing an Account of Its Formation in the Reign of King Charles the Second, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1839 by Richard Cannon