The idea of hitting his enemy Osborne such a blow soothed, perhaps, the old gentleman: and, their colloquy presently ending, he and Dobbin parted pretty good friends.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

ANT: Piecemeal, partially, ghostly, fragmentarily, gradually, spiritual.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

SYN: Running, prevalent, ordinary, present, popular, general, floating, exoteric, vulgar.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

A short dance phrase pianissimo , given first to the violas, then to the violins (cf. Ex. 6 ).
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

But pretty Polly Gookin felt not thus.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Its rather pretty, plaything, Gothic form was almost a style, in the dirty industrial town.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

What is poor plain George Fox compared to William Shakspere—to fancy's lord, imagination's heir?
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

At the same time he married a pretty peasant girl from Ramsdorp, whose portrait he has often introduced in his pictures.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 3 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

I think that the spirit, before and after this probation, possesses greater facilities, aye, manifold greater, for the acquisition of knowledge, than while manacled and shut up in the prison-house of mortality.
— from Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith

Pleistocene pocket gophers from San Josecito Cave, Nuevo León, México.
— from The Breeding Birds of Kansas by Richard F. Johnston