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M E A S U R A B L E

191

M E R I T

... hung up the cage to the immeasurable delight of the whole family.

Curiosity, 127

The sack was empty, but the potentiality of the scales had become immeasurable.

Gash, 68

MERCIFUL — UNMERCIFUL

MERCIFULLY — UNMERCIFULLY

I heard then of an action of yours which 1 consider was both unjust and unmerciful.

Hatter's, 480

They commenced to chaff him unmercifully.

Three, 182

... with a thonged whip in his hand, which he vigorous­ ly and unmercifully applies to the bare back and shoulders of the man ahead of him...

Company, 314

MERITED — UNMERITED

MERIT — DEMERIT

But the pleasure is loftier, and may comfort our unmer­ ited misfortune for a while...

Egoist, 572

It might have been a wedding or a funeral, but for the grimness of their faces, and the sense of unmerited persecution at the back of every mind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

End, 266

It made a sensation

out of

all proportion

to

its merits

or even its demerits, and

I

at

once became

infamous

as

a dramatist.

 

 

 

 

Preface, 19

 

 

 

 

 

 

Even

more than his

merits,

his

demerits

pointed him

out as a man to be a friend to a young woman who wanted one.

Egoist, 101

MI LITA RY

192 -

M O B ILE

MILITARY — UNMILITARY

An air of military authority — and an unmilitary greeting...

Say, 270

Peacock's gay voice seemed effeminate and unmili­

tary...

I Wish,

15

MINDFUL — UNMINDFUL

 

I should be sorry that you went away and thought

I

was unmindful of your goodness...

18

Curiosity,

With a desperation that was madness, unmindful of the pain, he hurried up the slope to the crest of the hill...

Love, 21

MITIGATED — UNMITIGATED

... a non-sentimental jury within had delivered an un­ mitigated verdict upon the widow’s wine.

Egoist, 385—386

The verdict must have been of unmitigated guilt...

Jim , 77

MIX — UNMIX

... it should be matter for unmixed congratulation.

Egoist, 530

... the news inspired me with feelings of unmixed de­

light.

Importance, 325

MOBILE — IMMOBILE

MOBILITY — IMMOBILITY

... immobile wands of the rushes which fringed the

pool...

Hatter's, 589

M O B I L E

193

M O D E S T

... the soldiers stayed on mute and immobile.

 

C r u sa d e r s, 5 6 0

... the stillness of

his position, the balanced immobil­

ity of the mood

more and more ominous.

 

T r a g e d y , 5 1 3

...the sad immobility of her face was transfigured by a rush of sanguine joy.

H a tt e r ’ s, 185

MOBILIZE — IMMOBILIZE

I don’t even wish that I had some weakness, some foolishness to immobilize me amongst the envious coolie faces...

 

 

R oom ,

140

No

magician’s wand can immobilize him

under

my

eves.

J i m ,

3 0 4

 

^

 

MODERATE — IMMODERATE

 

 

 

MODERATELY — IMMODERATELY

 

She

had warned him against everything

immoderate

and immodest.

P re sse r,

120

 

 

Her worthy Lord... fell into an immoderate fit of laugh­ ter and laid himself down to sleep again.

C u r io sity , 4 3 7

His desire was to prove to her that he was immoder­ ately fond of her already.,.

 

E g o is t,

96

 

MODEST — IMMODEST

 

 

MODESTLY — IMMODESTLY

 

She had

warned him against everything immoderate

and immodest.

 

 

P re sse r,

120

14 Заказ

818

 

M O D E S T L Y

194

M O R A L IT Y

What an object it is he loves!— that has gone clamour­ ing about more immodestly than women will bear to hear of...

E g o is t,

579

She had giggled insanely, immodestly...

 

H a tt e r ’s, 50

MORAL — a) IMMORAL

 

b) UNMORAL

 

MORALITY — IMMORALITY

 

If you say ‘Thou shalt not kill’ and close your

eyes

to the‘why,’ then you, too, are not moral but immor­ al.

C ro ss, 397

Are you saying, Sir James, that a woman who plays an immoral part is not moral?..

S p o o n , 2 3 4

He realized that his general moral or unmoral attitude was perhaps working them a temporary injustice.

F in a n c ie r, 464

As for the rest of him, he was a brute-beast, wholly

unmoral, and with all the passion and

turgid

vio­

lence

of the brute-beast.

P in c h ed ,

3 4 4

 

 

 

Just

as

one doesn’t mind men practising

immorality

so

long as they own they are in the wrong by preach­

ing

 

morality; so I couldn’t forgive

Andrew

for

preaching immorality while he practised

morality.

 

 

 

M a jo r ,

2 6

And

the moods in others awakened responsive moods

in

her, those rearranging chemisms upon which all

the

morality or immorality of the world is based.

T r a g e d y , 23

M O R T A l

- 195 -

MOVING

 

MORTAL — IMMORTAL

 

 

MORTALITY — IMMORTALITY

 

She had

a widowed mother in the picturesque

village

of Sneyd, where the mortal and immortal welfare of every inhabitant was watched over by God’s vice­

gerent, the busy

Countess

of Chell...

 

Genius dedicated

to

fame is

1W ives,

555

immortal.

 

 

 

 

E g o is t,

2 3 0

Your grain of wheat

is your symbol of immortality.

 

 

 

 

O ctopu s,

144

That fellow Goethe had attained immortality...

E n d , 81

MOUNT — DISMOUNT

Dismounting from this animal... Jack Muskham would

enter, smoking one of his special cigarettes...

E n d , 411

Just a moment, Pavey,’ ’ he bellowed, and Dan dis­ mounted.

P oor M a n , 31

MOVED — UNMOVED

MOVING — UNMOVING

MOVABLE — IMMOVABLE

Muskham was looking at her with unmoved face.

E n d , 176

The crowd began to hiss and boo him for his unsports­ manlike conduct, but he sat unmoved.

M e x ic a n , 3 3 0

She stood unmoving.

Hullo, 149

1 4 *

M O V A B L E

196 —

N E C E S S A R I L Y

He tried to move his head, and encountered an immov­ able resistance.

I n v is ib le , 69

They are always men who look immovable.

D ip lo m a t , 3 1 2

NATURAL — UNNATURAL

NATURALLY — UNNATURALLY

That would be natural conduct to your own son, and you like to be unnatural, and to keep him out of his rights.

M a r tin , 3 7 3

... a thousand things which had seemed unnatural and repulsive speedily became natural and ordinary to me.

M o re au , 134

Five hundred pounds, a lady, a suite in the sun, and gaming tables handy, was not unnaturally his idea of heaven...

E n d , 112

“ He was naturally agitated,” said the girl doubtfully.— “ No, unnaturally agitated,” replied Traill.

W ho K n ew , 248

NECESSARY — UNNECESSARY

NECESSARILY — UNNECESSARILY

Mr. Bensington certainly sniffed critically at this disor­ der, but he made no unnecessary fuss...

F o o d , 28

All efforts would be made to avoid unnecessary disputes...

 

 

H u llo ,

178

And

Bill

struggles out, a muddy, trampled wreck,

and

in

an

unnecessarily aggressive mood...

 

T h ree, 26

n e c e s s a r i l y

197 —

N O R M A L

Essex followed and felt again that she and Drake were unnecessarily restrained with each other.

D ip lo m a t, 112

NERVE — UNNERVE

NERVOUSLY — UNNERVOUSLY

Robert, you are excited, unnerved.

I d e a l, 2 4 4

Then Kellermann left his place and came over to the unnerved man.

 

 

C ru sa d e rs, 513

... he had behaved

in the

worst moment of the crash

as unnervously as

Essex

himself.

 

 

D ip lo m a t, 4

NOTICED — UNNOTICED

... it was easy for Mary to slip unnoticed through the busy streets...

H a t t e r 's , 150

... the spaniel Foch sat down unnoticed and ate a quan­ tity of coarse grass.

E n d ,

2 6 6

NORMAL — ABNORMAL

 

NORMALLY — ABNORMALLY

 

...“ normal” sight... being enjoyed by only about

ten

per cent ot the population, the remaining ninety per cent being abnormal.

P re fa c e , 14

... all day she lay between waking and sleeping, till normal things assumed abnormal proportions.

S a y N o , 254

N O R MA L L Y

Ю 8 -

OBSCU RE D

... those who came off best were exactly the exceptions that proved the rule, abnormally healthy and ener­ getic people like the Squire and his daughter.

W ho K n ew , 223

OBEDIENT — DISOBEDIENT

OBEY — DISOBEY

OBEDIENCE — DISOBEDIENCE

The

dwarf muttering a

terrible oath

looked

round

as

if

for some weapon with which

to

inflict

condign

punishment upon his

disobedient

wife.

 

 

 

 

 

 

C u r io sity ,

61

Is it obeying your husband to disobey him on the vital subject of his business?

T a le , 190

He didn’t disobey, but he didn’t really obey, not with anything inside him.

D e a th , 96

... conscience... lives but to give rebellion its fascina­ tion, and disobedience its charm.

P ic tu re , 227

... her disobedience of her father, the defiance of every cannon of her upbringing struck her in one concentrat­ ed blow...

H a t t e r 's , 88

OBSCURED — UNOBSCURED

... the dog with the cap on... kept his unobscured eye anxiously on his master.

 

 

 

C u r io sity , 166

You...

are surprised

to

discover unexpectedly a famil­

iar

turn of thought, an unobscured vision, a tenacity

of purpose, a touch

of

altruism.

J i m , 2 4 7

O B S E R V E D 199 OCCUPI ED

OBSERVED — UNOBSERVED

OBSERVANT — UNOBSERVANT

I thought

that I should be able to slip

out unobserved

in the

morning...

 

 

I n v i s ib le ,

127

 

 

 

 

 

Unobtrusive

and

unobserved,

this

individual

had

already

travelled

with him...

 

E n d ,

109

Men are

so

painfully unobservant.

I d e a l,

186

 

 

 

 

 

He plodded on with bowed head, unobservant, mechan­ ically rubbing his nose and cheeks.

L o d g in g , 79

OBTRUSIVE — UNOBTRUSIVE

OBTRUSIVELY — UNOBTRUSIVELY

Unobtrusive and unobserved, this individual had already

travelled with him...

 

E n d ,

109

When

necessary, Essex could be unobtrusive in

his

exits.

 

 

D ip lo m a t,

2 0 8

Eileen

stayed unobtrusively outside.

 

 

H u llo ,

96

As unobtrusively as possible he walked around the stranger.

C ru sa d e rs, • 154

OCCUPIED — UNOCCUPIED

... a work of fiction that I had written during my few unoccupied hours.

1 m p o rtan ce, 3 4 6

...Mary’s spirits drooped, and unoccupied, with time to think of herself, she became disturbed, restless, excit­ ed.

Hatter's, 46

O F F E N S I V E

2 0 0

O P P O S E D

OFFENSIVE — INOFFENSIVE

OFFENDING — UNOFFENDING

... she had inherited from her mother those light, inof­ fensive eyes...

Hatter’s, 27

Cora was usually an inoffensive soul, except that she sometimes cussed.

 

 

 

 

C o ra,

3 5 7

And later he might

have broken

your skull... and if

not your skull, then some other

poor and

unoffend­

ing creature’s skull.

 

 

B u lls ,

303

 

 

 

 

OFFICIAL — UNOFFICIAL

 

 

.. this unofficial and irregular

interview

had come

true.

 

 

Tom orrow ,

131

 

 

 

.. he had, at fourteen, become

the

unofficial,

also

decidedly unpaid,

assistant to the

Doc...

 

 

A rro w sm ith , 2

OPENED — UNOPENED

... a desk piled high with unopened mail.

C an n ery , 18

It was early, not yet eight o ’clock, and the shop still unopened.

Wives, 260

OPPOSED — UNOPPOSED

Just love and summer, and idyllic and happy progress toward an eventual secure and unopposed union which should give him to her for ever.

T ra g e d y , 443

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