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NEGATIVE — POSITIVE
These are only negatives. Life is positive. Death is only the absence of life, just as night is only the absence of day...
Octopus, 588
A negative action may have positive results.
Work, 157
NEVER — NOW
This overmastering wish of his — for its fulfilment it was now or never with himl
End, 261
“ It’s either now or never,’ ’ she said to herself!..
Ann, 8
NEW — OLD
...any fancies, any reasons, any apprehensions, anything whatsoever, new or old...
Tale, 159
All of them, both the old and the new nations...
Outline, 193
This war is a struggle between the new and the old.
Cross, 374
The'death of the old and the morning of the new.
Spring, 338
OLD — YOUNG
None of them, young or old, thought of passing the child without a friendly word.
Curiosity, 175
He hated them now, though he didn’t know their faces, whether they were old or young, or how many they were.
Crusaders, 379
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The young had no luck. Luck is for the old.
Cross, 286
OPEN — SHUT
... the deluge rising from below, not falling from above, and with the windows of heaven shut, not opened.
Tale, 322
But the only way in which she had ever found content ment was to shut her eyes to the bad and to open her heart to the good.
Cross, 426
PAINFUL — PLEASANT
PAIN — PLEASURE
1 don’t know what to call it either pleasant or painful.
Bleak, 824
Mrs. Quilp was as innocent as her own mother of any emotion, painful or pleasant...
Curiosity, 205
How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestowl
Pride, 239
The main advantage about these tinpot honours... is not in the pleasure they cause to the chaps who get them: it’s the pain they cause to the chaps who don’t.
Homecoming, 239
PEACE — WAR
Peace or war, if you’re a worker, you get bullets.
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PERMANENTLY — TEMPORARILY |
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.. he would have to marry her, if not permanently, then at least temporarily, but legally, just the same.
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PHYSICAL — SPIRITUAL |
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In her the physical without the spiritual seemed |
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... marching forward to some spiritual triumph, the promise of which was inherent in the physical aspects of the town.
Milk, 153
PLAY — WORK
He’s coming here to work — not play.
Tragedy, 170
I can neither work nor play.
Women, 246
PLEASURE — SORROW
Whether from pleasure or from sorrow, great tears fell from my stupid eyes on Lorna’s letter.
Lorna, 239
It shall be for me the souvenir of a meeting that held both pleasure and sorrow.
Crusaders, 197
POOR — RICH
It is only that he has better means of having it than many others, because he is rich, and many others are poor.
Pride, 178
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... never mind whether you are rich or poor, do what
the empire tells you...
Death, |
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... do him homage, high and low, rich and poor, |
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he has become the King’s right hand... |
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POOR — WEALTHY
The family are not wealthy — they are poor indeed.
Dombey, 364
The effect of his scientific budget-planning was that he felt at once triumphantly wealthy and perilously
poor.
Babbit, 79—80
PRACTICE — THEORY
“I thought science paid no regard to frontiers.” — “ In theory. In practice we close the other eye.”
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‘‘That’s a new theory, anyway...” — “ Ah, |
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PRETTY — UGLY
I paint anything, whether it’s pretty or ugly as sin.
Swan, 227
“It’s pretty, isn’t it,” said Prew. — “ No,” disagreed Violet. “ It’s ugly. Horrible ugly.”
From Here, 87
PRIVATE — PUBLIC
Yet, MonSeigneur had slowly found that vulgar embarrass ments crept into his affairs, both private and pub lic.
Tale, 121
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PUNISH — REWARD |
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I don’t know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it.
Ideal, 179
QUICK — SLOW
QUICKLY — SLOWLY
QUICKNESS — SLOWNESS
Meanwhile the dog in disgrace ground hard at the organ, sometimes in quick time, sometimes in slow, but never leaving off for an instant.
Curiosity, 168
His good friend Jarndyce and some other of his good friends then helped him, in quicker or slower succession to several openings in life.
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Swan, |
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I found myself thinking, or rather sensing, that at some places I must go slowly and at others more quickly and that the slowness and the quickness hadn’t, as it were, to be dumped in heaps, but to be spread smoothly.
Room, 93
RIGHT — WRONG
RIGHTLY — WRONGLY
At any sign, right or wrong, they would inject him.
Homecoming, 385
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... things which were |
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Jude, |
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How is a man to know whether he did right or wrong with his life?
Cross, 135
He thought no longer of the rights and wrongs of this particular conflict...
Britling, 254
We won’t go into the rights and wrongs, Jack.
End, 428
Rightly or wrongly, he was in the midst of risks of his
own choosing.
Live, 386
Rightly or wrongly, he thought the final collapse was close and resolved on suicide.
Brown, 257
RISE — SET
The rays of a setting or of a rising sun?
Swan, 144
Wally thinks the sun rises and sets on you.
Some Came, 140
RISE — SINK
Martin sank or rose to Clif’s buoyancy, while Clif rose or sank to Martin’s speculativeness.
Arrowsmith, 23
... an atmosphere in which one could rise or sink, and that most swiftly and fatefully either way.
Stoic, 151
ROUGH — SMOOTH
... rough or smooth, I won’t go further than the mile and a half tonight.
Curiosity, 159
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They won’t take rough and smooth as they come.
Egoist, 106
SHADOW — SUBSTANCE
Dinny felt a sort of admiration at the painful integrity with which he was grasping the shadow and letting the substance go.
End, 179
Aren’t we exchanging the substance for the shadow?
Women, 38
SHORT — TALL
A woman doesn’t love a man because he’s fat or slim, or curly, or bold, or short, or tall.
Some Came, 667
Some were short, some tall, dark, fair, some ugly, others handsome.
Felix, 99
SICK — WELL
Sick or well Ja n ’s going to be my wife.
Say, 143
... a well mind would grow sick in here, he thought...
Crusaders, 268
SILLY — WISE
But I have motives, whether wise or silly, for letting that pure sanctuary alone.
Don, 425
... spoke and lived as ye speak and live, no worse and no better, no wiser and no sillier.
Caesar, 234
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SIN — VIRTUE |
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Lord Illingworth told me this morning |
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... purity, incorruptibility, and all the other seven deadly virtues.
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Ideal, |
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You would |
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sin, I would convince |
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Brown, |
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SINK — SWIM |
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Anyway, we’re all in this |
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... we are committed to sinking or swimming with the
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Heroes, 180
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SLEEPING — WAKING |
But waking |
or sleeping, by night or day, in sickness |
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she is the one object of my care... |
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Curiosity, 18 |
... she drifted into a dream, half-waking and half-
sleeping...
Say, 233
SPIRITUAL — TEMPORAL
... everyone of her ladyship’s- remedies, spiritual or temporal.
Vanity, 363
S P I R I T U A L |
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... the theory that the Pope was not only the spiritual but also the temporal ruler of the world.
Outline, 94
STRONG — WEAK STRENGTH — WEAKNESS
But he was weak, and you are very strong.
Dombey, II, 516
Is the drink too strong or too weak?
Live, 35
He did not like the strong ganging up on the weak.
Crusaders, 58
To see both sides of a question vigorously was at once Jon’s strength and weakness.
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SUMMER — WINTER
Summer or winter, rain or shine, out he had to go.
Presser, 116
Summer or winter he ordinarily wears a rain hat.
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VICE — VIRTUE |
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... a man who wanted to be accepted as a man, accord ing to his individual virtues and vices.
From Here, 346
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WITH — WITHOUT
We ijiust not think of the things we could do with but only of the things that we can’t do without.
Three, 32
Go back he must — he had said — with her or without.
End, 83
WITHIN — WITHOUT
Nothing clear without, and nothing clear within.
Dombey, II, 390
... it (the house) was by now unpretentiously trim without, and comfortable within...
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