That this measure was wise but few would controvert. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
That you know your duty, and will not offer to controvert his will?. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
"Hem," said Dr. Macgowan, gruffly, unable to controvert the logic of. From Wordnik.com. [Hetty's Strange History] Reference
"'Es," answered Denny, seeing no reason to controvert this reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
Prince had plainly shown, that he would controvert the opinions of Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
And is it thus, sir, that you presume to controvert what I have related? '. From Wordnik.com. [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference
Your reasons for wishing to remove her are too substantial for me to controvert. From Wordnik.com. [The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale] Reference
He did not attempt to controvert what I said, but still asked where I was going. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Story of an Old Rebel] Reference
I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
But they, none of them, were in a position to controvert the skipper's statement. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
He proved this with economic logic that I could not controvert-upon his premises. From Wordnik.com. [Movie Night] Reference
Somewhat to Ashburner's surprise his friend made no attempt to controvert his argument. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
That interpretation will controvert the very spirit and purpose of the principle stated. From Wordnik.com. [The High School Failures A Study of the School Records of Pupils Failing in Academic or Commercial High School Subjects] Reference
Struck with a truth which she could not controvert, Cecilia sighed deeply, but spoke not. From Wordnik.com. [Cecilia] Reference
It is impossible to controvert this truth, which surrounds us and presses us on all sides. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Consequently his words controvert all common ideas, and do not tally with the general views. From Wordnik.com. [Lunheng] Reference
And it seems to me that that is the underlying issue that Mark Penn is trying to controvert here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2008] Reference
I was much diverted with this Welsh derivation of Wrexham, which I did not attempt to controvert. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference
Mr. Cymon expressed his perfect concurrence in a statement which it was impossible to controvert. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz] Reference
There must be some explanation to controvert the general rule which Professor Craig has given us. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911] Reference
There are commands at the point of this pen, which the proudest statesmanship dares not controvert. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
He allowed no 'division of time' to opponents wishing to controvert the positions assumed in his speeches. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
She had discovered that it was useless to controvert them, and generally listened with some pretence of patience. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859] Reference
It is for opponents, therefore, to controvert the positions I have taken, rather than to criticise what I have omitted. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
A person asked him, "With all your wisdom and address, learning and science, how came you not to controvert an infidel?". From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
“That is to say,” said Burley, “that thou wilt join thy grey hairs to his green youth to controvert me in this matter?”. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mortality] Reference
If there are any who controvert our assertion, we will in this treatise pass them over, and consider their objections hereafter. From Wordnik.com. [Politics] Reference
He had tried in these remarks to controvert the old ideas, and to present the cause of the disease and its treatment as he sees it. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882] Reference
This does not mean to repudiate the claims of the I.W. W. to any extent, but to controvert the negative proposition that all of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Conspiracy] Reference
If there be in it any statements, or assumptions of fact, which I may know to be erroneous, I do not, now and here, controvert them. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Mr. Kelley, who next addressed the House, also brought proof to controvert the "hasty assertion" that but one race had been enslaved. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
The first I have no desire to controvert, especially as it has been selected as one of the illustrations of our history in the House of. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850] Reference
At any rate, an isolated phenomenon, such as this, cannot be held to controvert the view that regards phallicism as in this normal line. From Wordnik.com. [Bygone Beliefs] Reference
And there is hardly any single generalization in this chapter which the author himself could not controvert by examples to the contrary. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
It was thought that Diego Velasquez paid Quevedo to controvert the representations of Las Casas and to plead the cause of the colonists at. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
While Liebig, therefore, can scarcely be said to have been the first to controvert the humus theory, he certainly dealt it its death-blow. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
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