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• The contrary. (10)
• On the contrary. (8)
• Quite the contrary. (12)
• Skepsey vowed to the contrary. (10)
• Now it had the contrary effect. (10)
• I know you have contrary theories. (10)
• Yet he knew to the contrary himself. (4)
• Its effect indeed was the exact contrary. (3)
• Here walked a creature exactly the contrary. (10)
• You may quote Napoleon as a contrary instance. (10)
• Woodseer flung out vociferously for the contrary. (10)
• He, on the contrary, scarcely looked at her at all. (10)
• He, on the contrary, scarcely looked at her at all. (22)
• On the contrary, she had never respected him so much. (10)
• On the contrary, you must stay by me, and support me. (10)
• Virginia was taken with the contrary movement of a sniff. (10)
• He stared, and appeared to insist upon a contrary statement. (10)
• To force her was the way to stiver up every contrary emotion. (8)
• Miss Denham on the contrary did not regret his active occupation. (10)
• On the contrary, her strange husband had blest her with an infant. (10)
• I, on the contrary, know that the world is not made up of nonsense. (10)
• She would have thought the contrary, that he was looking as well as ever. (10)
• On the contrary, she was as much disposed to complain of it as her husband. (4)
• On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. (4)
• Curious little speeches flying about the great world, affirmed the contrary. (10)
• I imagine, on the contrary, that your childhood was a hotbed of carefulness. (12)
• If he is able, his disappointment will, on the contrary, help his criticism. (16)
• On the contrary, as the light of the Duke dwindled, Raikes gained in lustre. (10)
• It is on the contrary the spot of sanity, which bids us right cordially hope. (10)
• On the contrary the eye should rest; get your effects with a few strong lines. (8)
• His conscience should have been eased by confession, but the contrary is true. (12)
• I hear that I am to stay in England, all rumors to the contrary notwithstanding. (14)
• Some harm, I fancied, must have been done, in spite of his boast to the contrary. (10)
• Dan was somewhat taken aback at a supposition so very contrary to what was in his mind. (9)
• On the contrary, the knowing that there was such a provision for me probably did bias me. (4)
• On the contrary, they were in a state of preservation far more heartbreaking than any decay. (9)
• On the contrary, she could think of nothing but Mansfield, its beloved inmates, its happy ways. (4)
• On the contrary, I think a young man might be very safely recommended to take Mr. Elton as a model. (4)
• On the contrary, he seemed to indicate that he was about to present himself to the people of Milan. (10)
• But the woman of the positive world soon read to the contrary; helped a little by the man, no doubt. (10)
• He has told me so with a warmth of manner which spoke his regret at having believed the contrary himself. (4)
• I could only allege the testimony of publishers and authors to the contrary, and this did not satisfy him. (9)
• At his voice the majestic pile deliberately turned its back on them, and went off in a contrary direction. (10)
• He was the first to promulgate the rule that contrary motion is always to be preferred to similar or oblique. (3)
• Miss Middleton looked simply grave; a way of asserting the contrary opinion that tells of rueful experience. (10)
• Not that voluntarily he cut himself off from his fellows: on the contrary, his sole amusement was their society. (10)
• The swift deduction from his own feelings cleansed her of a suspicion to the contrary, and he became lighthearted. (10)
• But experience seems to contradict this theory, or else people often act contrary to their convictions and impulses. (9)
• On the contrary, civilization has always been for the most part purely empirical, and progress will ever remain so. (16)
• On the contrary, it was his established belief, and one for which he was prepared to furnish due and proper reasons. (8)
• Janet, on the contrary, might some day perceive the sterling fellow Temple was, notwithstanding his moderate height. (10)
• On the contrary, the very righteous, who have been rewarded with poverty, are permitted to die whenever it pleases them. (7)
• On the contrary, one of the most impassioned sentences in the paper is that in which he speaks of the dignity of politics. (14)
• On the contrary, the Countess joined the conspiracy to exclude him, and would stop a mild laugh if perchance he looked up. (10)
• She believed that his arm was broken, and smarted with wrath at her mistress for so easily taking his word to the contrary. (22)
• She was obliged, in spite of her previous determination to the contrary, to do it all the justice that Mrs. Weston foretold. (4)
• The wind was contrary, and blew in furious gusts; nor were the aspects of nature any more clement than the doings of the sky. (2)
• Blacksmith, a little man, had in his hand a short notched cane, with which, contrary to expectation, he did not switch his legs. (8)
• On the contrary, it had reared a youth, handsome, intelligent, well-bred, and, observed the ladies, with acute emphasis, innocent. (10)
• On the contrary, the rumor of sinister control is more frequently circulated in connection with the French press than with our own. (16)
• On the contrary, she appreciated a scene of such absolute comedy, recognizing it instantly as a situation plucked out of human nature. (10)
• She has already almost persuaded me of her being warmly attached to her daughter, though I have been so long convinced to the contrary. (4)
• On the contrary, her plans and proceedings were more and more justified and endeared to her by the general appearances of the next few days. (4)
• The regular features, now slightly flushed with the fever, of the patient in her charge, on the contrary, were constantly varying in expression. (5)
• Although the weather was warm, the two windows, contrary to the custom which gives the dead plenty of air, were closed and the blinds drawn down. (1)
• An outrageous lunatic fit, that promised to release him from his fatal passion, seemed, on the contrary, respectable in essence if not in the display. (10)
• On the contrary, his attitude toward them is almost always one of frank cynicism, with indifference as its mildest form and contempt as its commonest. (16)

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