Designs may be planned on the counterchange principle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference

So it went, change and counterchange, and the assortment of animals was depleted on both sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phaze Doubt]

Fig. 20 is an example of a counterchange design carried out in inlay; for this method of work counterchange is very suitable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference

The pattern, it will be noticed, is planned on the counterchange principle, which is particularly well suited for this method of work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference

If you're angry and resentful, requests for change will be met with resistance and counterchange efforts: "It's not my problem; it's your problem.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Loving Your Partner As A Package Deal] Reference

Now the heavy hand of war dealt equal woe and counterchange of death; in even balance conquerors and conquered slew and fell; nor one nor other knows of retreat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

What I have seen and heard during my stay among you has forced on me the belief that this slow change from habitual inertness to persistent activity has reached an extreme from which there must begin a counterchange -- a reaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference

Using samples from his illustrious career, he takes the reader through his thought process and explains principles both basic (setting up an efficient studio, thumbnail sketches) and advanced (shapewelding, counterchange, flagging the head).    From Wordnik.com.  [Imaginative Realism Reviews] Reference

Answered each other in a sweet antiphonal counterchange.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charmides] Reference

There is, in short, a general international counterchange.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spirit of Place and Other Essays] Reference

In the one (A) it defines the clear-cut counterchange pattern; in the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery] Reference

Greek art and Gothic alike have series, with repetition or counterchange for their ruling motive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays] Reference

Every language, by counterchange, returns to the writer's touch or breath his own intention, articulate: this is his note.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays] Reference

We waited, ant through the constant change and counterchange of plans it was noon before we finally left Arras for Amiens.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blitzkrieg In Flanders] Reference

The signora and Ammiani fell to a brisk counterchange of questions relating to the mysterious suspicion which had fallen upon Vittoria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vittoria — Complete] Reference

Repetition and counterchange, of course, have their place in Japanese ornament, as in the diaper patterns for which these people have so singular an invention, but here, too, uniqueness and position are the principal inspiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays] Reference

Of the lyric or the prosaic part, the counterchange of loves and laughters, of fancy fine as air and imagination high as heaven, what need can there be for any one to shame himself by the helpless attempt to say some word not utterly unworthy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Shakespeare] Reference

(The French contre, Latin contra) against; 2. contrariety; 3. reciprocal; 4. correspondent: 5. equal opposition: as, 1. counter-act; 2. countermand, retract a command; counter-evidence, counter-march, back; 3. counterchange; 4 counter-part; 5. counter-vail, avail equally in opposition; counter-balance, exactly balance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scholar's Spelling Assistant; Wherein the Words Are Arranged on an Improved Plan, According to Their Respective Principles of Accentuation. In a Manner Calculated to Familiarize the Art of Spelling and Pronunciation, to Remove Difficulties, and to Facilitate General Improvement Intended for the Use of Schools and Private Tuition] Reference

It is a counterchange.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

Joy stole in gentle counterchange.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor] Reference

This counterchange of pearl and diamond.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2] Reference

Each object with a joy: the counterchange.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cymbeline] Reference

Their points of contact, and swift counterchange.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keats: Poems Published in 1820] Reference

With fervid counterchange.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Song] Reference

“Witch-elms that counterchange the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of the Lake] Reference