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Listening to her, I was beyond knowing whether her insight was true or false.

Homecoming, 163

Nobody knows the truth; everybody believes a false­ hood...

Curiosity, 543

... so that he may love truth and detest falsehood.

All Men, 2

FAR — NEAR

... long lances of sunlight pierced down through the dense foliage far and near and a few butterflies came fluttering upon the scene.

Adventures, 90

Surely Fleur would see in the long run that he couldn't play fast and loose. . .

Spoon, 267

FAST — SLOW

FAST — SLOWLY

They sent me down a succession of compact, scornful boys who used to go fast when I wanted to go slow, and slow when I wanted to go fast...

Britling, 14

“...my pulse is getting slower.” — “ And mine is get­ ting faster.”

Say, 165

young man’s slaughtering and appropriating to his own use any calf, fat or lean...

Martin, 125

... although Sossy, despite heroic feeding began to grow lean, the pups were fat as slugs.

Venerable, 62

They never knew when they were beaten. That was their fault and their virtue.

A strange conflict of hopes and fears raged within Dinny.

End, 212

They had argued so much round their fears and hopes during the last few days.

FEW — MANY

... whether they were many days or few, appeared of

little moment now...

FIND — LOSE

Once I went far into the valley... where Lorna had found and lost her young cousin.

Lorna, 126

You do that when you’ve lost a horseshoe that you’ve found, instead of nailing it up over the door.

Adventures, 214

FINE — WET

And every Sunday afternoon I went up there, wet and fine, though I knew as well as you do it wasn’t no good by day.

Fairyland, 287

And Lampton was, of course, merely a sergeant-observ­ er from start to finish.

From first to last Marjorie was extremely careful to avoid the affectionate scrutiny of her mother’s eye.

Ay; and what has held him baffled at the gate all these

months? Was it my folly, as you deem it, or your wis­ dom?

Treasure, 221

Soldiers must not forget, they said, soldiers must not remember; all that is treason.

From Here, 384

FRESH — STALE

They encountered more weeds in the bar-room, some of whom... were pretty stale in one sense, and pretty fresh in another.

Martin, 339

It was the ancient attraction of the fresh for the stale.

Sister, 115

FRIEND — ENEMY

I asked for us to be friends, Margaret, not enemies.

All Men, 146

I know all the men who rule this country — friend and enemy.

Heroes, 223

FRIEND — FOE

Your Missis has not been my friend; she has been my foe.

Jane, 58

Friend or foe meant nothing on a word.

Heroes, 110

FRIENDLY — HOSTILE

... he would not recognize that the great proportion of human beings are more readily hostile than friendly.

Britling, 274

... her expression was neither hostile nor friendly.

Hatter’s, 536

FROM — TO

... went in and, to and from, sundry places of mercantile resort.

Dombey, II, 242

.. his journeys to and from the village.

Cross, 221

GAIN — LOSE

GAIN — LOSS

What one loses on the swings one gains on the round­ abouts.

Homecoming, 228

People went along, living their lives as best they could, not gaining much may be, but not losing greatly either...

From Here, 394

“ Let us weigh the gain and loss,” he quoted, “ in wager­ ing that God is, let us estimate these two chances. If you gained, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. ’ '

Quiet, 149

But it isn’t always so simple to reckon up your gains and losses.

Spring, 491

GENERAL — PARTICULAR

...why mention the particular when the general would serve.

End, 616

... the undesirability of warfare in general, and during winter in particular.

Crusaders, 444

GIANT — PIGMY

“So you think your friend in the city will be hard upon me, if I fail in a payment?” says the trooper, looking

A pigmy’s a giant if he can manage to arrive in season.

Egoist, 360

GIVE — RECEIVE

...philanthropy when practised in a business way is an art that blesses him who gives as well as him who receives.

Philanthropy, 199

We know what we give, we cannot know what we re­ ceive.

All Men, 76

GIVE — TAKE

... it’s one thing to give orders, and quite another thing to take’em.

Dombey, 86

You want to be private, you don’t want to give and take like an ordinary man.

Homecoming, 163

GLAD — SORRY

I am not sorry... I am glad I did it.

Hope, 202

This was how it always ended, and I didn’t know whether to be sorry or glad.

Room, 176

GOOD — HARM

Whether it will do us harm or good remains to be seen.

End, 477

He must have been doing more harm than good around here.

For Whom, 21

GOOD — ILL

He had attained to a fatalistic acceptance of all natural dispensations, good or ill.

Thousand, 105

It was a flaw or set of flaws, which both for good and ill, shaped much of how I affected others...

Martin, 294

GREAT — SMALL

... it deserves consideration in all dealings with the doctor, great or small.

Copperfield, 22

There was a perfect plague of state banks, great and small, in those days...

I have seen her . in her grief and I have seen her in her joy...

Dombey, 11, 211

... he knew from the way she sobbed that her grief was mingled with joy.

Tomorrow, 273

GUILTY — INNOCENT GUILT — INNOCENCE

... requiring to be cleared if innocent, and punished with the utmost rigour of the law, if guilty.

Bleak, 476

So the law assumes there must be one guilty party, and one innocent party who has been wronged by deser­ tion of the matrimonial bed.

All Men, 471

... how they had been perfectly distracted between the strong proofs of his guilt, and their own fading hopes of his innocence.

Curiosity, 507

HANDSOME — LIGLY

Not that it was an ugly face; no, it might’ve been a handsome one, full of strength and will, and resolu­ tion.

Lorna, 114

It was a face that was neither handsome nor ugly, dis­ tinguished nor common.

Cross, 28

HAPPY — MISERABLE

He seemed to think it remarkable that he should be so miserable in exactly the same place where he had once been so happy.

Death, 205

... all that he positively knew was that Hilma occupied his thoughts morning, noon, and night; that he was happy with her, and miserable when away from her.

Octopus, 339

HARD — SOFT

A hard man with a can of beans — a soft man with the bones of his grandfather.

Cannery, 10 the harder the frost the softer the thaw.

Hatter's, 240

HATE— LIKE

Perhaps other women like work, but I hated it.

All Men, 441