SYN: Story, narrative, incident, fiction, fable, romance, legend, recital, anecdote, relation, [See ROMANCE].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Yet is it bright with many a gem; I the wearer, see not its far flashings; but darkly feel that I wear that, that dazzlingly confounds.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

He turned towards his quarters, and from the steps nodded in friendly fashion to the captain.
— from 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? by Franz Adam Beyerlein

"And because," said Norris, "I found fault herewith, Sir William began to quarrel with me, hath braved me extremely, refuseth to take any direction from me, and although I have sought for redress, yet it is proceeded in so coldly, that he taketh encouragement rather to increase the quarrel than to leave it."
— from History of the United Netherlands, 1586c by John Lothrop Motley

[117] Bangor.—This cathedral church must not be confounded with the celebrated college of the same name, in Flintshire, founded by Dunod Vawr, son of Pabo, a chieftain who lived about the beginning of the sixth century, and from him called Bangor Dunod.
— from The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales by Cambrensis Giraldus

I have only one now, but it has heard all that has been spoken near it for four hundred years.
— from A Likely Story by William De Morgan

"Look here, my dear child," he said, "nothing is further from my thoughts than to pose to you as a saint.
— from The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann

But the "positive" foreign policy for peace has dragged us into so many international commitments (many of which are in direct conflict with each other: such as, our subsidizing national independence for former colonies of European powers, while we are also subsidizing the European powers trying to keep the colonies) that, if we continue in our present direction, we will inevitably find ourselves in perpetual war for perpetual peace–or we will surrender our freedom and national independence and become an out-voted province in a socialist one-world system.
— from The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot

However, my dear Sally, nothing is further from my own expectations.
— from The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines by Margaret Vandercook