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COU NT RY

- 40

CRY

COUNTRY — TOWN

In town or country, wet or dry, hot or cold, Tom Codlin suffers.

Curiosity, 324

But town or country, the table should be sacred.

 

 

Egoist,

410

 

CROOKED — STRAIGHT

 

I ’ve been

going crooked, but now I ’m

going straight,

and the

first step will be to get a job

in some office...

 

 

Babbit,

266

... my chimney’s crooked, and I can’t put it straight...

Poor

Man,

43

CRUEL — KIND

 

 

 

CRUELTY — KINDNESS

 

 

 

Because the people of this town are kind

as

they

can

be cruel.

Whom,

116

For

The kind man drinks and turns cruel...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brown,

102

...as if the creature had found a midway

and border­

line to walk on between cruelty

and

kindness,

and

between

repulsion and attraction.

 

 

Egoist,

345

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They would go

on — safe for

ever,

living

their

little

pigmy

lives,

doing pigmy

kindnesses

and cruelties

' each to

 

the other.

 

 

 

Food,

281

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CRY — LAUGH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CRYING — LAUGHTER

 

 

 

The words

were

of an old lovesong

which

one might

cry or

laugh

at.

 

 

 

 

 

Lorna, 64



CRY

41

D A R K N E S S

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.

 

Swan,

106

 

DANGEROUS — SAFE

 

‘‘ You are

a dangerous woman.” — ‘‘On the contrary,

1 am a

safe woman.”

 

 

Heartbreak,

170

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

 

 

Who Knew,

252

 

DARK — LIGHT

 

 

 

DARKNESS — LIGHT

 

 

 

DARKEN — LIGHTEN

 

 

He walks

with you every day and hour,

by light

and

by dark, at dawn and

at dusk...

Tragedy,

14

 

 

 

Therefore

whatsoever

ye have spoken

in darkness

shall be heard in the

light.

 

 

 

 

Tomorrow,

198

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d a r k n e s s

— 42 —

DEATH

... 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...

 

 

For

Whom,

431

 

DAY — NIGHT

 

 

 

Mark Tapley knew as well that she had bought

it...

as

he knew that

it was

day and not night.

Martin,

310

 

 

 

You could knock on the unlocked door

any

hour

of

day or night,

and walk in.

 

 

245

 

 

Fatherless,

 

DEAD — LIVING

 

 

 

 

DEATH — LIFE

 

 

 

 

 

DIE — LIVE

 

 

 

Where is she? Living or

dead, where is she?

 

 

 

 

 

Bleak,

789

... there would be the

smashing explosion

into hatred

of everything

living

and dead...

Live,

272

 

 

 

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


DEATH

- 4H

D E E P

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.

 

Yankee,

297

There

is nobody upon earth who cares whether I

live

or

die.

 

 

Death,

220

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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D F F E A T

44

D I F F I C U L T

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.

 

Caesar,

339

Sometimes I hope,

my dear, and sometimes I don’ t

quite despair, but

nearly.

716

 

Bleak,

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