But before he could set to work there came more "contrarious" orders.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

Note: any further contrarious commentary should be directed to Monsieur Espinasse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Braise The Dog] Reference

So when they were in the sea a contrarious wind blew them on the coasts of North Wales, nigh the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference

Description of the contrarious passions in a louer.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other"] Reference

Run with these false and most contrarious quests 60.    From Wordnik.com.  [Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]] Reference

Note: any further contrarious commentary should be directed to.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Word-A-Day] Reference

It was the son who sang the 'Death of Nelson' under such contrarious circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays of Travel] Reference

What other art gives scope to natures and dispositions so diverse, and to tastes so contrarious?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Style] Reference

You and I seem to meet in a mild contrarious harmony ... as in the 'si no, si no' of an Italian duet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846] Reference

But love thou rather all the fair, and thou shalt find, If one contrarious prove, another will be kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III] Reference

Part of his wish to wash his hands of life arose from his perception of its contrarious inconsistencies -- of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference

(Between such contrarious mixtures of ice and fire, laughter and tears, -- fear and hope, the deceiving dame.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Zanoni] Reference

It was just bitterly disappointing and contrarious that the one person he wished to see was a Commodore Graham.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Summons] Reference

So when they were in the sea a contrarious wind blew them on the coasts of North Wales, nigh the Castle Perilous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1] Reference

Mention the name V.S. Naipaul, and you're bound to get a terse reaction, even with vitriol, often contrapuntal or just contrarious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot] Reference

Saturday, the second day of August, such an huge and great tempest arose, that no sail might be made, the wind being still contrarious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical] Reference

What are we to think of the contrarious young woman who, when he lay beaten, drove him off the field and was all tenderness and devotion?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference

Therefore I will say nothing, but think there was never man in so great a service received so little comfort and so contrarious directions.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

2689: And the contrarious Windes that held the King.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry IV, Part One (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference

1836: Run with these false, and most contrarious Quest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Measure For Measure (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference

"I wonder what makes you such a contrarious person, Gibbie Gault?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Gibbie Gault] Reference

They been so wikked and contrarious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canterbury Tales] Reference

Or might I say contrarious?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milton] Reference

Or, might I say, contrarious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss] Reference

Laws formed to harmonize contrarious creeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad] Reference

And the contrarious winds that held the king.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Part of King Henry IV] Reference

And the contrarious winds that held the king56.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act V. Scene I. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth] Reference

Run with these false and most contrarious quests.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

And to hym forbyden, as moste contrarious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ship of Fools, Volume 1] Reference

Syns dyuers doctrines throughe way contrarious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ship of Fools, Volume 1] Reference

"most contrarious to mine own judgement") to set out for Scotland and join his wife at Berwick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

Or, might I say, contrarious ”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss]

And you, contrarious Lancelot, farewell.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. Lancelot: I] Reference

"It air jes 'one o' thar most contrarious ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [His "Day In Court" 1895] Reference

Given to acting in opposition to others: balky, contrarious, contrary, difficult, froward, impossible, ornery, wayward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » There’s Always Next Year] Reference