Such unconscious day dreams are as much the source of night dreams as of neurotic symptoms.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
Not him the sea's unmeasured deeps detain, That bar such numbers from their native plain; Lo!
— from The Iliad by Homer
8. boldly denounceth, impium est, adulterum est, sacrilegum est, quodcunque humano furore statuitur, ut dispositio divina violetur , it is abominable, impious, adulterous, and sacrilegious, what men make and ordain after their own furies to cross God's laws.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
ANT: Spoil, upset, disconcoct, disconcert, mar, misprepare.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
ANT: Sap, undermine, disorganize, decompose.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
Dinnae shame us, Davie, dinnae shame us!
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
[293] Dass die Kirchen ohne Volk sind, dass die Völker ohne Priester sind, dass die Priester ohne Ehre sind, und dass die Christen ohne Christo sind.
— from History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume 3 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné
Tire-t’arrière (sailors’), une dégelée de —— , an awful thrashing .
— from Argot and Slang A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms and Flash Phrases Used in the High and Low Life of Old and New Paris by Albert Barrère
ANT: Relax, sever, unclasp, disconnect, detach, exclude.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
ANT: Divest, strip, unrobe, denude, deprive.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
And always afterwards, whenever the worthy Doctor was chosen to represent the town at Hartford or New Haven, there seemed to be a special interposition of providential mercy, inasmuch as in all his professional round, none ever sickened unto death during his absence; though it sometimes happened that the population of the town would be increased by one or two.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various
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