SYN: Plainly, obviously, distinctly, evidently, palpably, lucidly, explicitly, perspicuously.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

ANT: Pass, omit, sanction, permit, overlook, disregard, elude, avoid, pretermit.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

NICTITATING MEMBRANE.—A semi-transparent membrane, which can be drawn across the eye in birds and reptiles, either to moderate the effects of a strong light or to sweep particles of dust, etc., from the surface of the eye.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

All that Mayans y Siscar, to whom the task was entrusted, or any of those who followed him, Rios, Pellicer, or Navarrete, could do was to eke out the few allusions Cervantes makes to himself in his various prefaces with such pieces of documentary evidence bearing upon his life as they could find.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

But who can look in a sweet, soft pair of dark eyes, without feeling queer?
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

On a certain bitter December evening, when the present century was several years younger than it is now, Miss Pengarvon, of Broome, in the shire of Derby, sat in the Green Parlor at the Hall, working by candle-light at some piece of delicate embroidery.
— from The Heart of a Mystery by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

In the best laid plans there will be some points of doubtful excellence.
— from David Fleming's Forgiveness by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

In order at once to furnish you with authoritative evidence on this point, I wrote to Mr. Kingsley, tutor of Sidney-Sussex College, a friend to whom I always have recourse when I want to be precisely right in any matter; for his great knowledge both of mathematics and of natural science is joined, not only with singular powers of delicate experimental manipulation, but with a keen sensitiveness to beauty in art.
— from Arrows of the Chace, vol. 1/2 being a collection of scattered letters published chiefly in the daily newspapers 1840-1880 by John Ruskin

691-u. Aesch Mezareph says the seven lower Sephiroth represent seven metals, 798-l. Affliction, a loneliness in, 189-m. Affliction, words go but little way into the depths of, 189-m. Agathodaemon, or Kneph, represented by Osiris, 587-l. Age we represent is not enlarged by our discoveries, 808-l. Ages of the Sun represented by the four ages of man, 465-u. Ages passed before reason was preferred to imagination, 674-m. Agla, Hieroglyphics of, indicate the Triple Secret of the Great Work, 104-l. Agni lives on the fire of the sacrifice, on the hearth, of the sky, 602-m. Agni, the Mediator between God and man, 602-m. Agricultural phenomena connected with Egyptian religion, 588-u. Agricultural, primitive people of Orient were wholly, 445-m. Ahih Ashr Ahih, I am what I am, the meaning of the name assumed by Deity, 697-l. Ahriman and ministers of Evil to be reconciled to Deity and Evil end, 847-l. Ahriman called "the old serpent, Prince of Darkness," etc., by Persians, 498-m. Ahriman concurred with Ormuzd in the creation of Man, 258-u. Ahriman condemned to dwell in darkness 12,000 years, 257-l. Ahriman considered older than Ormuzd by some Parsee sects,
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

Just in the same way the bewildered orator, by the simple process of denying everything that has been hitherto asserted, makes a clean sweep of the whole discussion, and can ‘start fair’ with a fresh theory.
— from Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (Illustrated) by Lewis Carroll

The loosing of this Cord, is an undoubted sign of death; sometimes this is only affected in one part, and is the cause of Paralytics, but when it happens to the head of the spinal Marrow, it hinders the influence of the spirits upon the whole Silver Cord, and consequently takes away all sense and motion from all the subjected parts, and gives a sure prognostic of death, especially in aged people.
— from The Morning of Spiritual Youth Improved, in the Prospect of Old Age and Its Infirmities Being a Literal and Spiritual Paraphrase on the Twelfth Chapter of Ecclesiastes. In a Series of Letters. by J. (John) Church

Their mutual advice, support, praise or dispraise, enthusiasm, abhorrence, likings, dislikings, constitute the atmosphere in which one lives.
— from Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

Malherbe seems almost to be echoing Montaigne when he says in a letter to Balzac:— "Do you not know that the diversity of opinions is as natural as the difference of men's faces, and that to wish -241- that what pleases or displeases us should please or displease everybody is to pass the limits where it seems that God in His omnipotence has commanded us to stop?"
— from A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn