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DIMINISH — INCREASE
The softness of Dinny’s feeling diminished, the watch fulness increased.
End, 333
. . the kicking continuing the whole way, and increasing in vehemence, rather than diminishing, every time
the top-boot was lifted.
Posthumous, 824
DISTANT — NEAR
It may be near, it may be distant; while the road lasts, nothing turns me.
Bleak, 527
In his very first words he asserts his relationship! I knew he would: they all do it! Near or distant, blood or water, it’s all one.
Martin, 64
DIVIDE — UNITE
... on the constitutional question, united we stand: divided we fall.
Apple, 33
... every man... felt himself bound to unite, heart and soul, with one of the two great parties that divided the town...
Posthumous, 188
DOWN — UP
... he found more of what he wanted in the down class than he could even find or tolerate in the up class.
I Wish, 49
One time up — one time down, as the proverb says.
Cross, 352
DRA W |
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DRY |
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DRAW — REPEL |
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The character of |
Sophia’s |
flat, instead |
of repelling |
the wrong kind of aspirant, infallibly drew just that kind.
Wives, |
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I seem to see the figure of that little boy. drawn |
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repelled. |
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Door, |
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DREAMING — WAKING
... but ever through it all, waking and dreaming, he waited for the wheezing breath and the harsh caress of the tongue.
Love, 36
... she drifted into a state half-waking, half-dreaming...
Say, 323
DRUNK — SOBER
Drunk or sober, there was no dare young Nelson wouldn’t accept...
Fatherless, 28
"You |
are very drunk,'' Gwen said.— ‘‘Sober as a judge,” |
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Came, 298 |
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DRY — WET |
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It is |
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wet the task becomes herculean. |
Three, |
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Funny that Fleur had never been very fond of the river; too slow and wet, perhaps — everything was quick and dry now, like America.
Spoon, 209
DUTY |
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DUTY — PLEASURE
... her hair was a manifest compromise between duty
and pleasure.
Marriage, 19
You know we have to hold our way in life equally amongst
duties and pleasures...
Tolstoy, 194
EARLY — LATE
At first it was too early for the boy to be received into the proper refuge and at last it was too late.
Bleak, 446
“We, men, know life too early.” — “ And we, women, know life too late.”
Woman, 165
EASY — HARD
I was trying to tell the truth, not to make things either too easy for myself, or too hard.
Homecoming, 363
He thought of how easy money was for them, and how hard it was for him.
Say, 162
EMPTY — FULL
All you got is two bottles, one nearly full, one nearly empty.
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From Here, |
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... no ’buses |
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motor lorries, |
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or empty, |
rumbled |
past. |
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Swan, |
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END — START |
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Our business starts |
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ends |
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Homecoming, |
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this argument.” — “ Did I? Well, |
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ending it.” |
From Here, 301 |
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He saw where |
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them, he thought, meat the end, but who at the start?
For Whom, 161
... she knew I knew the whole story, everything from start to end.
Some Came, 1008
ENTER — LEAVE
Daniel Quilp neither entered nor left the old man’s house, unobserved.
Curiosity, 95
Nobody entered the alley or left pt.
Adventures, 159
ENTIRELY — PARTIALLY
He merely wondered, and then dismissed it partially, but not entirely, from his mind.
Tragedy, 93
And he appeared to be partially, if not entirely, drunk, and very insolent.
Maupassant, 61
EVIL — GOOD
...wrenching them from their good purpose to make them fortify an evil one.
Yankee, 60
And so the factory came to be regarded as a good thing, not an evil.
Cross, 4
EVI L |
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F A I L U R E |
Good could never come of such evil, a happier end was not in the nature of so unhappy a beginning.
Tale, 397
But the pit is open at her feet, and for good or evil we cannot turn her from it.
Joan, 555
EXTERNAL — INTERNAL
EXTERNALLY — INTERNALLY
Spain, involved in internal and external difficulties...
Outline, 141
... so long as other theories or situation and impulses
of an external, or |
even internal, character did not |
arise to clash with |
these, she was safe enough. |
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Tragedy, 22 |
These injuries having been comforted externally, with patches of pickled brown paper, and Mr. Pecksniff having been comforted internally, with some stiff brandy-and-water...
Martin, 35
FAIL — SUCCEED
FAILURE — SUCCESS
He had many a time heard of this thing succeeding but never of it failing before.
Adventures, 58
But she had not failed — she had succeeded...
Hatter's, 669
Naturally I want to avert a conflict in which success would damage me and failure disable me.
Apple, 47
How to choose between a false success and a fake fail ure?
From Here, 162
F A I R |
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F A L S E |
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FAIR — FOUL |
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“ For thirty years,” |
he said, “ I have sailed |
the seas, |
and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul...”
Treasure, 165
Times have changed, and it does nobody any harm to take a proper pride in being neat. There’s no rule of foul without and fair within.
Spring, 281
FALL — RISE
... funds had risen when he calculated they would fall.
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Vanity, |
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Notch |
by notch, as the temperature fell the tension |
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at |
Matawaska rose. |
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Fatherless, |
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rise and fall of the huge chest. |
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Cross, |
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... she was sitting very still, the lace on her white shoul ders stirring with the soft rise and fall of her busom.
Man, 79
FALSE — REAL
I deny that my feelings are false. They are real to me and I try to express them honestly.
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“ At |
least your confidence is real,” she |
said. “ Not |
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false confidence, or bravado...” |
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FALSE — TRUE |
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FALSEHOOD — TRUTH |
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Too True, 277
F A L S E |
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FAST |
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
...if she had lived out on the far side of Hall |
Drive, |
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stead of on the near side of Roosevelt. |
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FAST — LOOSE |
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And I remember we used to call it playing fast |
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loose in those days... |
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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
F AS T |
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F E A R |
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1 write rather |
slowly.” |
Pride, |
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... running |
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appearing to come slowly. |
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Some Came, |
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FAT — LEAN |
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least objection, |
doubtless, to |
the |
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
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FAT — THIN |
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Fat or |
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Vanity, |
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“ No criticism.” — “ No. Except that you |
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thin, |
Katha.” — “ I don’t want to |
get |
fat,” |
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Katha. |
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FAULT — VIRTUE |
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They never knew when they were beaten. That was their fault and their virtue.
Koolau, |
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... the realtor must know his city, inch by inch, and |
all |
its faults and virtues. |
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Babbit, |
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FEAR — HOPE |
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A strange conflict of hopes and fears raged within Dinny.
End, 212
