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He did not know whether to laugh or cry over it.

Some Came, 1099

“I thought I was old enough,” she gasped between laughter and crying.

Ann, 24

...and then Barbara goes off into another fit of laughter, and then into another fit of crying...

Curiosity, 593

DAMP — DRY

... we all have our various ways of gaining a livelihood. Some of us have damp ways and some of us have dry ways.

Tale, 67

Well, tragedy’s extreme; and we don’t like extremes. Tragedy’s dry and England’s damp.

But 1^ think you are unreasonable. A thing cannot be bad' because it is too dangerous and too safe.

3 Заказ 818

... our history commenced at so late a period as to escape the ages of bloodshed and cruelty through which other nations have passed; and so have all the light of their probation and none of its darkness.

Martin, 350

And to lighten or darken his burden his mother came at noon the very next day.

Tragedy, II, 286

... when solid things darken and space lightens...

But when it comes to facing one family, not the dead but the living...

Fatherless, 210

Not a moment to lose. Matter of life or death.

Bleak, 787

And the way of the soldier is the way of death; but the way of the gods is the way of life.

Caesar, 230

It was not death that Skene ever sought, but life found­ ed upon imperturbable reality.

Fatherless, 480

... the kind of day to make one want to live, not die.

DECREASE — INCREASE

Charles Lomax’s exertions are much more likely to decrease his income than to increase it.

Major, 21

Dave’s dissatisfaction with his job had been increasing steadily, instead of decreasing.

Some Came, 393

DEED — WORD

Annie Bouman was the only one who did not feel ashamed to avow herself by word and deed the companion of Gretel and Hans.

Silver, 177

... and, while he dwelt upon the uncertainty of human life, seemed both in word and deed to deem himSelf immortal.

Curiosity, 459

DEEP — SHALLOW

Shallow soil takes the scholastic speed, deep soil needs ploughing.

All Men, 53

Would they in their turn for the sake of another gen­ eration have to give up fine occupations for mean oc­ cupations, deep thoughts for shallow?

Marriage, 418

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DEFEAT — VICTORY

... for such as have brains there are no defeats, but only victories.

Yankee, 117

Life had no flavour except for the contrasts of victory and defeat, loving and loneliness, which one intro­

duced into it.

Live, 486

DEFENSIVE — OFFENSIVE

We are not all arrayed in two opposite ranks: the offen­ sive and the defensive...

Martin, 11,41

... before he could think or do anything either defen­ sive or offensive...

Some Came, 765

DESPAIR — HOPE

He who has never hoped can never despair.

DIFFICULT — EASY

... most strangely making the difficult easy and the easy

difficult.

Yankee, 219

They were not difficult and for a girl of Roberta’s natural grace and zest, easy.

Tragedy, 296

DIMINISH — INCREASE

The softness of Dinny’s feeling diminished, the watch­ fulness increased.

End, 333

. . the kicking continuing the whole way, and increasing in vehemence, rather than diminishing, every time

the top-boot was lifted.

Posthumous, 824

DISTANT — NEAR

It may be near, it may be distant; while the road lasts, nothing turns me.

Bleak, 527

In his very first words he asserts his relationship! I knew he would: they all do it! Near or distant, blood or water, it’s all one.

Martin, 64

DIVIDE — UNITE

... on the constitutional question, united we stand: divided we fall.

Apple, 33

... every man... felt himself bound to unite, heart and soul, with one of the two great parties that divided the town...

Posthumous, 188

DOWN — UP

... he found more of what he wanted in the down class than he could even find or tolerate in the up class.

I Wish, 49

One time up — one time down, as the proverb says.

Cross, 352

the wrong kind of aspirant, infallibly drew just that kind.

DREAMING — WAKING

... but ever through it all, waking and dreaming, he waited for the wheezing breath and the harsh caress of the tongue.

Love, 36

... she drifted into a state half-waking, half-dreaming...

Say, 323

DRUNK — SOBER

Drunk or sober, there was no dare young Nelson wouldn’t accept...

Fatherless, 28

Funny that Fleur had never been very fond of the river; too slow and wet, perhaps — everything was quick and dry now, like America.

Spoon, 209

them, he thought, meat the end, but who at the start?

For Whom, 161

... she knew I knew the whole story, everything from start to end.

Some Came, 1008

ENTER — LEAVE

Daniel Quilp neither entered nor left the old man’s house, unobserved.

Curiosity, 95

Nobody entered the alley or left pt.

Adventures, 159

ENTIRELY — PARTIALLY

He merely wondered, and then dismissed it partially, but not entirely, from his mind.

Tragedy, 93

And he appeared to be partially, if not entirely, drunk, and very insolent.

Maupassant, 61

EVIL — GOOD

...wrenching them from their good purpose to make them fortify an evil one.

Yankee, 60

And so the factory came to be regarded as a good thing, not an evil.

Cross, 4

Good could never come of such evil, a happier end was not in the nature of so unhappy a beginning.

Tale, 397

But the pit is open at her feet, and for good or evil we cannot turn her from it.

Joan, 555

EXTERNAL — INTERNAL

EXTERNALLY — INTERNALLY

Spain, involved in internal and external difficulties...

Outline, 141

... so long as other theories or situation and impulses

These injuries having been comforted externally, with patches of pickled brown paper, and Mr. Pecksniff having been comforted internally, with some stiff brandy-and-water...

Martin, 35

FAIL — SUCCEED

FAILURE — SUCCESS

He had many a time heard of this thing succeeding but never of it failing before.

Adventures, 58

But she had not failed — she had succeeded...

Hatter's, 669

Naturally I want to avert a conflict in which success would damage me and failure disable me.

Apple, 47

How to choose between a false success and a fake fail­ ure?

From Here, 162

and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul...”

Treasure, 165

Times have changed, and it does nobody any harm to take a proper pride in being neat. There’s no rule of foul without and fair within.

Spring, 281

FALL — RISE

... funds had risen when he calculated they would fall.

... she was sitting very still, the lace on her white shoul­ ders stirring with the soft rise and fall of her busom.

Man, 79

FALSE — REAL

I deny that my feelings are false. They are real to me and I try to express them honestly.

Too True, 277