She accounted for this pale face and these hollow eyes by declaring that she had sat up reading until a very late hour on the previous night.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
[cause to remember] remind; suggest &c. (inform ) 527; prompt; put in mind, keep in mind, bring to mind; fan the embers; call up, summon up, rip up; renew;
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
Schall und Rauch umnebeln Himmels-Gluth —Sound and smoke overclouding heaven's splendour.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.
Un soupir, un regard, un mot de votre bouche, / Voilà l'ambition d'un cœur comme le mien —A sigh, a look, a word from your lips, that is the ambition of a heart like mine.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.
ANT: Hard, tough, stubborn, unyielding, rigid, unimpressible, rough, coarse, harsh, abrupt, ungentle, rigorous, cutting, severe, unkind, unfeeling, sharp, inflexible, stern, austere, ascetic, self-denying, resolute, determined.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
The same holds true of try out , win out , sign up , register up .
— from The Elements of Style by William Strunk
V. produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish &c. (complete) 729.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
stand up, rise up, get up, jump up; spring to one's feet; hold oneself, hold one's head up; drawn oneself up to his full height.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
He was superseded under rather unpleasant circumstances.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3 Name ist Schall und Rauch, Umnebelnd Himmelsgluth.—
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway
Ever and anon there was a splash, sometimes caused by the boat as the smooth undulations rose up as it seemed from the depths below, and made her roll lazily for an instant from side to side, or some fish rose to the surface with wide-open mouths, or leaped up into the air, or one of the monsters of the unfathomed waters came to have a gaze at the strange thing which floated over their liquid home.
— from The Three Midshipmen by William Henry Giles Kingston
( 177 , n. 3), to stand up, rize up, arize ; Mk.
— from A Gothic Grammar, with selections for reading and a glossary by Wilhelm Braune
The [56] shad, for instance, swims up rivers until it finds the proper place.
— from Confidential Chats with Boys by William Lee Howard
Several years after it cracked, for some unknown reason, under a stroke of the clapper, and its tone was thus destroyed.
— from Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs
When young they are smooth and appear to remain so unless rained upon or moistened, when they crack more or less finely in drying.
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine
Bruce answered him: “Yes, for some hours, I fear, but we wanted to avoid spreading unnecessary rumors until—” “I understand.
— from A Mysterious Disappearance by Louis Tracy
The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.—
— from Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou
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