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“Do you think they like you?' ’ — “ No, I don’t. I think they hate us.’ 1
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Cyanide, |
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HEALTH — SICKNESS |
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But waking |
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by night or day, in sickness |
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or health, |
she is the one object of my care... |
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Curiosity, |
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Stoic, |
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HEAVEN — HELL
HEAVENLY — HELLISH
You fascinated me; but I loved you; so it was heaven; this sister of yours fascinates me; but I hate her; so it is hell.
Heartbreak, 172
... he had never done anything good enough to go to heaven, and he had never done anything bad enough to go to hell.
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Came, |
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They can know each other heavenly and |
hellish... |
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so perfectly that they go beyond heaven and hell. |
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Women, |
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It only needs a cathedral to be a heavenly city instead of a hellish one.
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Major, 91 |
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HEAVY — LIGHT |
His |
head felt empty, light as air; his feet were heavy |
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lead. |
Tomb, 272
H EAVY |
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Ig n o r a n c e |
it would have been heavy to bear; but infinitely lighter than now...
Dombey, 356
HERE — THERE
There were ships of mail standing like ghosts in armour, here and there.
Curiosity, 11
One doesn’t get out of life by going here or there.
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Marriage, |
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But this is |
neither here nor there, and 1 must get |
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Lorna, |
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HIGH — LOW |
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I know so much about so many characters, high |
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Bleak, |
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... a thing between himself and Warden that rank, whether high or low, would not appreciate.
From Here, 73
The public was profoundly concerned; they searched high and low. They dragged the river for his body.
Adventures, 203
High and low, all made fun of him.
Vanity, 52
IGNORANCE — KNOWLEDGE
It was no longer a simplicity of ignorance, but of supreme knowledge.
Octopus, 460
The journey from ignorance to knowledge of an individ ual student may remain a unique series of events whilst being controlled by a set of fixed rules.
Discovery, 181
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I N F E R I O R |
ILL — WELL
But Margot knew that her husband was not well. He was ill.
Tomorrow, 301
“I hope Phuong’s well,” he said, “ I have never known her ill .”
Quiet, 101
But whether he treated it well or ill, it loved nothing so much as to be near him.
Moreau, 134
IN — OUT
... these ruined shelters have bred a crowd of foul exist ence that crawls in and out of gaps in walls and boards...
Bleak, 231
People who had given up all hopes of ever getting either in or out...
Three, 68
1 had a thorough knowledge of all the ins and outs already.
Lorna, 290
INFERIOR — SUPERIOR
The inference of which is, that the aristocracy is the inferior, the people the superior race.
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Snobs, |
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The common |
man is the superior, not the inferior, |
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the titled |
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Apple, 85
I N F E R I O R |
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JOY |
The voice, |
as Tollifer did not fail to note, was |
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exactly that of a superior |
addressing an inferior. |
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Stoic, |
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The secret... is to cause every cast to fear its superiors and to be contemptuous of its inferiors.
From Here, 334
INWARD — OUTWARD
INWARDLY — OUTWARDLY
It had a crazy board fence around it, which leaned inward in places, and outward the rest of the time, but stood upright nowhere.
Adventures, 62
Then he conferred a moment with his assistant who listened with great outward deference but was In wardly rejoicing at the grand joke he would have to tell his fellow students.
Silver, 183
Outwardly they both walked placidly and sedately, but inwardly there surged in each a tide of pent-up feelings...
Hatter's, 62
... may be he wouldn’t even have laughed, either outward ly or inwardly.
Some Came, 1014
JOY — SORROW |
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The silent river that had known her sorrow and |
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T hree, |
... and then I goes back to Mrs. Trotter and tells her, and she cries as hard for joy as she did for sorrow. .
Matrimony, 164
L A R G E |
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L E FT |
LARGE — SMALL
... every other house in Barnet was a tavern, large or small...
Oliver, 93
... and at least thirty-five other gadgets, small and large, less expensive and more expensive.
Colonel, 216
LATE — SOON
You’d rather be twenty minutes too soon than one minute too late, wouldn’t you?
Wives, 323
Sooner or later he would be able to talk to her when no other person was around.
Live, 36
But sooner or later people will read it.
Fatherless, 196
LEAVE — TAKE
He knew these people needed men. If one didn’t take him, another would. This man could take him or leave him, just as he chose.
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Sister, 386 |
Mr. |
U n d e r s h a f t : You have my terms. Take them |
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leave them. |
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Major, 98 |
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LEFT — RIGHT |
Don’t you be afraid of my turning out of my way, right or left.
Bleak, 785
Dora paid grocery bills right and left for two years.
Cannery, 12
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L E F T |
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L I T T L E |
She turned, |
not to the right, which was |
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for home, |
but to the left... |
Hatter's, 134 |
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LIE — TRUTH |
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And remember, the truth, however ashamed of it you
may be, is better than any |
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Tragedy, 11, |
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... anybody... would |
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that the old gentleman |
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was spinning truth |
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Adventures, |
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LIGHT — SHADOW
... the fantastic girls parading by ones, by twos, with alert, ranging eyes, moved alluringly from light to shadow.
Night, 110
How could they know whether these patches of shadow and patches of light meant good or evil.
Say, 306
LITTLE — MUCH
He wondered how much or how little they knew...
All Men, 207
Other people care too little or else they care too much.
Live, 267
Chris had deduced more or less what had happened.
Fatherless, |
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... if anything she seemed to have more rather |
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Some Came, 1166
L O A T H E |
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LOATHE — LOVE
... she had renounced that which she loved and thrown herself into that which she loathed.
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Wives, |
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If a man and woman have sinned, |
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Woman, |
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LONG — SHORT |
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Martin, |
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Hatter's, |
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Octopus, |
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LOOSE — TIGHT
...then came slopsellers’ shops, with Guernsey shirts, sou’wester hats, and canvas pantaloons, at once the tightest and the loosest of their order, hanging up outside.
Dombey, 163
That afternoon they finally changed the tight bandage and put on a looser.
Some Came, 658
LOSE — WIN
I ’ve lost and won more lawsuits than any man in Eng land.
Vanity, 82
Win or lose — nothing’s worse for public life than private ructions.
Spoon, 203
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LOVE |
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LOSS — PROFIT |
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let us gratify them boldly, |
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Martin, 41
There was a great comparing of papers... after this statement of profit and loss...
Posthumous, 834
LOVE — HATE
LOVE — HATRED
...he knew that he — who had always loved people — was now beginning to hate them.
Cross, 107
Of course I don’t hate youl I love youl
Some Came, 635
I will go out now to the common people, and let the love in their eyes comfort me for the hate in yours.
Joan, 555
Sometimes we have a kind of love for our enemies and sometimes we feel hate for our friends.
Quiet, 185
... some men whom they have chosen for love or hatred.
All Men, 1
And you shall discover in these creatures... not human love, but only the most profound and limitless ha tred of mankind.
Tomorrow, 271
LOVE — MONEY
..Dehn, the son-in-law, who had married Pamela — whether for love or money was never quite clear to the widow.
Crusaders, 616
LOVE |
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M A R R IE D |
No taxi-driver will take you — for love or money — when I ’ve spoken to him.
Say, 340
LOWER — UPPER
He is in a helpless condition as to his lower and nearly so as to his upper limbs.
Bleak, 299
... each bunk both upper and lower had a small shelf nailed to the wall at the head.
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MAD — SANE |
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I paint pictures to make me feel sane. Dealing |
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True, |
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“ He isn’t |
mad, |
is he?” — “ No, |
only too sane, which |
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is much the same thing, |
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Spoon, 15 |
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MAJOR — MINOR |
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Constance, |
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nothing from Sophia, |
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who was made aware of the minor and major defects
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Amy... |
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Wives, |
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He |
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discoverer, |
and he did not |
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Who Knew, |
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MARRIED — SINGLE
. and she parted from him convinced that, whether married or single, he must always be her model of the amiable and pleasing.
Pride, 140
M A R R I E D |
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Is this young lady more amusing single, or more amus ing married?
End, 189
MASTER — SERVANT
But though conscience is a good servant it is a very bad
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Poor, |
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Pluck |
and impetuosity are good servants in war, |
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masters. |
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Joan, |
MENTAL — PHYSICAL
MENTALLY — PHYSICALLY
It would distress me more than I can tell you, dear Gwendolen, if it caused you any mental or physical anguish...
Importance, 326
... women’s difficulties are physical and real, men’s difficulties are mental and formal...
End, 52
Clyde’s father was then short, fat and poorly knit men
tally as well as physically...
Tragedy, 183 lie looked harder, both physically and mentally...
From Here, 401
NARROW — WIDE
The wide rooms seemed too narrow for his rolling gait...
Eden, 17
His forehead was narrow, his face wide...
Posthumous, 672