ANT: Fewness, a small number, Individual, paucity, single person.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
mque colores, Cur ego, si nequeo ignoroque, poeta salutor?
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 1 (of 8) by Richard Hurd
Descriptas servare vices operumque colores, Cur ego, si nequeo ignoroque, Poeta salutor?
— from The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden
I have often transcribed for the printer, from my shorthand notes, important public speeches in which the strictest accuracy was required, and a mistake in which would have been to a young man severely compromising, writing on the palm of my hand, by the light of a dark lantern, in a post-chaise and four, galloping through a wild country, and through the dead of the night, at the then surprising rate of fifteen miles an hour. . . .
— from Queen Victoria by E. Gordon (Edgar Gordon) Browne
It was Sunday morning, too, and having some "nickels," I played several games with them.
— from London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes
If this calm season pleased my Prince, Whose fulness no need could evince, Why should not I, poor silly sheep, His hours, as well as practice, keep?
— from Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Henry Vaughan
[102] You take the average one of 'em, and if he can't spend all he's got on Saturday night, it practically spoils his Sunday for him.
— from J. Poindexter, Colored by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
There are three of them, it seems;—the first female souls that could ever manage to kindle, into flame or into smoke: in this or any other kind, that poor torpid male soul: those Mailly Sisters, three in number (I am shocked to hear), successive, nay in part simultaneous!
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle
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