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BACK — FORTH

The bottle worked back and forth now like a shuttle.

From Here, 170

It slid up and down at the top of its oiled shaft, back and forth...

Cross, 211

BACK — FORWARD(S)

He distinguished the choice open to him of forward or back, and he selected forward.

Egoist, 259 As she paced back and forwards across the small green...

Hatter's, 89

BACKWARD(S) — FORWARD(S)

She began to rock backward and forward, at the same time swaying from side to side as in a trance.

Tragedy, 425

... he looked, not forward, but backward.

Hatter’s, 430

A dog... ran backwards and forwards on the parapet...

Oliver, 507

BAD — GOOD

If you’ve obeyed all the rules, good and bad, and you still come out at the dirty end, then I say the rules are no good.

Pride, 283

We’re all in this together for" better or for worse.

Cross, 346

BEAST — MAN

But man or beast, it will be wise to stay here a minute and let it get by and out of the way.

BEAUTIFUL — PLAIN

Curious thing, plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are.

Woman, 108

Her face was not beautiful, it was rather plain.

Crusaders, 34

BEAUTIFUL — UGLY

Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful.

For Whom, 97

They are not ugly! They are strong and... beautiful.

Tomorrow, 59

BEFORE — SINCE

Gunpowder, it seems, was never so cheap, before or

since...

Lorna, 30

Three, 96

BEGIN — END

BEGINNING — END

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Ideal, 239

I want to settle it — to begin it or end it.

Heroes, 272

This is not the end for her, but the beginning.

Joan, 587

... may be the end of your world, but it is the beginning of a world for all others.

Heroes, 341

BEGIN — FINISH

They were all eating similar food simultaneously; they began together and they finished together.

Wives, 486

Office affairs are easy to begin and difficult to finish, particularly in a small town.

Room, 71

BIG — LITTLE

He looked at them all — little and big.

Tragedy, II, 262

It was the little things that got Pa Dunn. Not the big

things.

Tomorrow, 265

... they want to shake us out and that’s the big and little of it, nothing more and nothing less.

Financier, 231

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BIG — SMALL

... insisted that the workers should look upon all of the farmers, small as well as big, as their enemies.

Outline, 324

... a bedbug is small and our house is big.

Cross, 374

BITTER — SWEET

... who shall analyse her tears, and say whether they were sweet or bitter?

Vanity, II, 371

... when they find life bitter they blame us for it, and when they find it sweet we do riot taste its sweetness with them...

Woman, 159

BLACK — WHITE

... whose intentions and actions towards Miss Alden were as different from those set forth by Mason as white from black.

Tragedy, II, 132

Ihave no objection to sit down and listen; but I don’t see how that can make black white.

Widower, 67

BLAME — PRAISE

.. whenever Alderman Dunstable praised or blamed she nodded twice or thrice, according to the require­ ments of his emphasis.

Ann, 140

.. if anywhere... any innocent man was wrongly blamed, then I would speak. If it were only that St. Clare was wrongly praised, I would be silent.

Brown, 273

man whose love of beauty makes him the severest critic of his own works.

Tomb, 301

I, who am beyond praise and blame...

Joan, 595

BLESSING — CURSE

Still, as I see it, marriage is a very sacred thing, and children are a blessing — not a curse.

BODY — MIND

He felt as he had felt when he came out of battle, body and mind exhausted.

Say, 270

What’s talked of as ‘breeding’ in humans is an attrib­ ute of mind rather than of body.

End, 152

BROAD — NARROW

... he emerged on Breite Strasse, which seemed to have been given its name Broad Street, as a joke, so nar­ row it was.

Crusaders, 540

But the beams or cleats I found myself on were not the broad, generous ones... on the contrary they were very narrow...

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Women like you have no hearts. Heart is not in you. You are bought and sold.

Lady, 64

CHEAP — DEAR

... for clothes, though dear to buy, are cheap to pawn...

Martin, 287

Buying cheap and selling dear...

All Men, 263

CHEAP — EXPENSIVE

... the long corridor that was like every other hotel

corridor whether cheap or expensive...

CLEAN — DIRTY

“Air they dirty, or air they clean, Sir?’ ’ said Scadder, holding them out.

CLEVER — FOOLISH

You don’t mean to say that this charming, clever young lady has been so foolish as to accept you?

so far differ from you as to think our two youngest daughters uncommonly foolish.”

Pride, 30

CLEVER — STUPID

I don’t call women of that kind clever. I call them stupid.

Ideal, 198

“ You become quite clever when you talk about her.’ ’— “ I didn’t know I was so very stupid on other subjects. ’ ’

Heartbreak, 188

CLOSE — FAR

The nearer to his favour, the nearer to his insolence; the closer to him, the farther from him.

Dombey, II, 244

... it may be farther off in your father’s sermons, Cal. But for the people it’s closer.

Tomorrow, 60

CLOSE — OPEN

Soames walked with his eyes on the ground, his lips opening and closing as though in anticipation of a delicious morsel.

Man, 71

He closed his eyes for a while, tlien opened them.

Love, 32

COLD — HOT

COLD — HEAT

Mrs. Jenkinson expressed her fears of Miss de Bourgh’s being too hot or too cold, or having too much or too little light.

Song, 168

Every day is a day of adventure with its cold and heat, its light and darkness, its cycles of exultant vigour and exhaustion...

“ I want to tell you something — two things,” he said hurriedly as the train came up. “ One is a warm one, the other a cold one.”

Jude, 191

COME — GO

Ministers come and ministers go; but 1 go on for ever.

Apple, 24

The hell with the money, come easy go easy.

Some Came, 144

COMIC(AL) — TRAGIC

COMEDY — TRAGEDY

.. it is tragic how much they trust us... Or comic, Lady

Basildon?

Ideal, 185

.. the thing was evidently more tragic than comic...

Club, 42

He was comical, yes, but he was also heartrendingly tragic.

Some Came, 212

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the com­ edy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life’s tragedy.

Woman, 111

He gave a start and a little laugh as if he had been sud­ denly switched from tragedy to comedy.

But now he wanted to know about him — not compli­ cated things, only a few simple matters.

COOL — WARM

For the first time her lips were not cool, shut and sister­ ly, but warm and open and delicious...

Death, 223

The day had been fine and warm; but at the coming on of night, the air grew cool.

Eden, 409

COUNTRY — TOWN

In town or country, wet or dry, hot or cold, Tom Codlin suffers.

Curiosity, 324

But town or country, the table should be sacred.

... my chimney’s crooked, and I can’t put it straight...

The kind man drinks and turns cruel...

Lorna, 64