English Synonyms and Antonyms: With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions, Designed as a Companion for the Study and as a Text-book for the Use of Schools |
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action allegory Anglo-Saxon animal ANTONYMS applied attached authority bad sense bathos beautiful body called casuistry cause character chiefly comminuted common commonly Compare synonyms connection danger deliberative assembly denotes derived differ distinction effect enduring enemy especially etymologically evil EXAMPLES expression fact faith fancy fasten favorable fear feeling force foreordination formal friendship FUNK give happiness hence honor human human voice idea implies injury intent involve Julius Cæsar kind knowledge language less light limited marriage matter meaning ment mental mind moral motion nature ness niggardly obiter dictum object offense one's ordinarily original pain pardon person or thing phrase pietism pity Pleonasm possession practise PREPOSITIONS primarily purpose qualities QUESTIONS rarely reason reference regard result Saxon secure signifies sophism sound speak special sense speech spirit statement stoicism substance suggestion term thou thought tion truth unfavorable sense usage usually utterance word
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Page 63 - Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 579 - When Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there; She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then, from his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand, The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 497 - For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Page 583 - Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.
Page 562 - E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner; Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years ; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more, Till, like a clock worn out with eating Time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
Page 505 - twixt south and south-west side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Page 195 - And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness, and all manner of disease among the people.
Page 99 - And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom ? And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
Page 354 - ... is made up of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen.
Page 612 - Twas long before the customers Were suited to their mind, When Betty screaming came down stairs, " The wine is left behind !" Good lack ! quoth he — yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword, When I do exercise.