But, believe me, in "contrariwise," he is flinty obsidian when it comes to his convictions. From Wordnik.com. [The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison] Reference
This is where I find myself face to face with a logic that is as "contrariwise" as anything TweedleDee and TweedleDum could debate. From Wordnik.com. [Kim Stagliano: The Jabberwocky World of an Autism Mom] Reference
That which, contrariwise, believed in the eventual success of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
Joe, contrariwise, counted all this child's-play an interruption. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
"Were any one to go with him, he'll contrariwise not get the flowers.". From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
There is no cause of enmity betwixt ye, but contrariwise of peace and good will. From Wordnik.com. [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference
Too much of it runs contrariwise to our own innate wisdom and natural integrity. From Wordnik.com. [Ultimate Reality CHeck] Reference
Indeed, the Government forces seemed to tend contrariwise to big business practices. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States] Reference
A long, thin neck indicates a good disposition, contrariwise, if it be short and thick. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses] Reference
I never seed such storms nowhere; and contrariwise, calms enough to make a Quaker sick. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
Therefore it is not lawful to pass contrariwise from the episcopal to the religious state. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
In Chinese and related societies, contrariwise, these herpetoids represented beneficent powers. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
Ishmael explained his “theory of contrariwise”: Collect out of fashion, be rich on no money. From Wordnik.com. [Just a Corpse at Twilight]
Or, contrariwise, the more mass, the greater mass, that is, the easier it is to move it any given distance. From Wordnik.com. [Out Like a Light] Reference
This other party contrariwise became quite distant to her, little though one would have thought it of him; and as. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
But contrariwise when nature makes a flower or living creature, she formeth rudiments of all the parts at one time. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
Love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: not rendering evil for evil or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book] Reference
Besides, if there's the least whiff of medicines in this room, it will, contrariwise, spoil the fragrance of these flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
But contrariwise, when they had seen that to me was committed the gospel of the uncircumcision, as to Peter was that of the circumcision. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 55: Galatians The Challoner Revision] Reference
The force of this seeming contradiction is to be explained by the acknowledged fact that dreams are in many instances to be read contrariwise. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
"You don't say," argued Shih Hsiang-yün, "that your words are hard things to swallow, but contrariwise, call people's temperaments impetuous!". From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may inherit a blessing. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 67: 1 Peter The Challoner Revision] Reference
But contrariwise, it is almost without instance contradictory that ever any government was disastrous that was in the hands of learned governors. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
"It is, then, far from being the case that harmony is moved or sends forth sounds contrariwise, or is in any other respect opposed to its parts?". From Wordnik.com. [Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates] Reference
He made of it a wonderful job, but was roundly hated by many of the property owners whom he left sitting way up in the air, or contrariwise, down in a hole. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference
Gerard says, "the Pimpernel with the blue flower helpeth the fundament that is fallen down: and, contrariwise, red Pimpernel being applied bringeth it down.". From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
And should she finally undertake the care of a ready-made family, she must be brave and courteous, not rendering railing for railing, but, contrariwise, blessing. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886.] Reference
Were you to let the beggars have them, why they will, first of all, be none the better for them; and, next, it will contrariwise be tantamount to throwing them away!. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
In reference to the former of these, volition will be concerning good; in reference to the latter, volition will be concerning the evil opposed to it, and contrariwise. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
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