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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
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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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“ He isn’t |
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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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discoverer, |
and he did not |
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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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N A R RO W |
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
master...
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Poor, |
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Pluck |
and impetuosity are good servants in war, |
but |
bad |
masters. |
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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
N E G A TIV E |
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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
O L D |
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PE A C E |
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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P E R M A N E N T L Y |
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chosen was |
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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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End, |
... 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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very |
old practice...” |
Wish, |
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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
P R IV A T E |
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PUNISH — REWARD |
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Bleak, |
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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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end; |
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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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ROUGH |
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right |
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theory, were |
wrong |
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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
