ANT: Disobliging, selfish, churlish, rude, imperious, dictatorial, exacting, inconsiderate, unaccommodating.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

It was designed to study cosmic rays, interplanetary dust, and solar ultraviolet and X rays, with the instruments attached to rods projecting from either end.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution by Lynne C. Murphy

When, however, it has acquired all the momentum of which it is capable, and is in full and rapid flight, such contact results in destruction.
— from Animal Locomotion; or, walking, swimming, and flying With a dissertation on aëronautics by James Bell Pettigrew

Dat ole black sow, she can root in de mud, She can tumble an' roll in de slime; But dat big red cow, she git all mired up, So dat cow need a tail in fly-time.
— from Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Thomas Washington Talley

Hell has no power over it, sin cannot blight it, schism cannot rend it, death itself can but knit it more strongly.
— from The Harvest of a Quiet Eye: Leisure Thoughts for Busy Lives by John Richard Vernon

hab some chance reach it den.
— from The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid

The state constabulary remained in diminished numbers, a still magnificent body of men but far too few for any real emergency, and the Federal agents, suspicious but puzzled, were removed to more turbulent fields.
— from A Poor Wise Man by Mary Roberts Rinehart

And here again what sweet confusion reigns, In dreary deserts mixed with painted plains!
— from The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1 by Alexander Pope