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  • For almost as long as black folks have been in this country, they've had a complicated relationship with law enforcement—and vice versa.†   (source)
  • Or vice versa.†   (source)
  • Number one's answer was found in number twenty-one (and vice versa), number two's answer was found in number twenty-two, and so on, all the way up to number forty, which cleared up the mystery of parataxis and hypotaxis raised in question twenty.†   (source)
  • If I looked like I might drift off, David nudged me and vice versa.†   (source)
  • Her clothes were almost an exact exchange for what she'd worn before—she wore a different pair of blue jeans and a different, ill-fitting turtleneck jersey; the extent to which Hester ever changed her clothes was a change from black to navy blue, or vice versa.†   (source)
  • "Those whose clothes are a bit roomy, I've got smaller here," said Moody, indicating the first sack, "and vice versa.†   (source)
  • and vice versa Lawyers who prevailed in the snake pit excelled at winging it.†   (source)
  • And vice versa.†   (source)
  • For almost two years he had been my only friend, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • …books if we like, Film Fun, the Beano, the Dandy, or the religious magazines or his mother's romance magazines, the Miracle and the Oracle, which always have stories about factory girls who are poor but beautiful in love with sons of earls and vice versa and the factory girl ends up throwing herself into the Thames with the hopelessness only to be rescued by a passing carpenter who is poor but honest and will love the factory girl for her own humble self though it turns out the passing…†   (source)
  • The fact that they unwittingly stopped some 500 feet short of their goal explains why they didn't see Hansen, Hall, or Lopsang on top, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • We worked a lot with "snaps"—targets that pop up—and "movers"—targets that move left to right and vice versa.†   (source)
  • Even Rev. Owens's Whosoever Baptist Church she loved, though he wasn't her favorite minister because he left his wife, or vice versa-we never knew.†   (source)
  • Then he told us they were acting this way because the missionaries before us were white people, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • The best girls get the best men and vice versa.†   (source)
  • Happier times had happier language, and stressful times vice versa.†   (source)
  • The transmitter communicates information to the brain from the computer, and vice versa, and the liquid alters the brain to put it in a simulation state.†   (source)
  • part three — BOY GETS GIRL BACK (OR VICE VERSA†   (source)
  • He recognized that the disease was confined to one side of the brain, affecting primarily the opposite side of the body (since the left side of the body is controlled mainly by the right side of the brain, and vice versa).†   (source)
  • Copernicus claimed that it was not the sun that moved round the earth, it was vice versa.†   (source)
  • She was the one who had seduced him, not vice versa.†   (source)
  • Whenever she tells me to get a glass of milk, I feel like a Pepsi and vice versa.†   (source)
  • He might somehow get loose and undo the old man, or vice versa.†   (source)
  • There was Peter, who she'd known forever-although Peter no longer came to her house and vice versa, they still hung out together in school, and he was the last person in the world Josie could ever imagine doing anything illegal.†   (source)
  • Zia's mother was Moody's mother's sister and his father was Moody's father's brother, or vice versa; the connection never was totally clear to me.†   (source)
  • The Valiants had been beating their competition so badly that Anderson was switching his offensive players to defense and vice versa midway through games out of sympathy for the competition.†   (source)
  • Do you know why losing your dragon, or vice versa, usually kills the survivor?†   (source)
  • I shiver, thinking about how easy it is to be totally wrong about people—to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa.†   (source)
  • Or vice versa.†   (source)
  • She'd listened to him just as he'd listened to her, he'd believed he could tell her anything, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • I thought to myself, I guess now Indians can be cowboys too, though probably not vice versa.†   (source)
  • Let's just say that an architect is more likely to hire a prostitute than vice versa.†   (source)
  • Or vice versa.†   (source)
  • And vice versa, right?†   (source)
  • Positive numbers if the boy is more attracted to the girl; negative if vice versa.†   (source)
  • You sit there thinking that the serial murder has found its medium, or vice versa—an act of shadow technology, of compressed time and repeated images, stark and glary and unremarkable.†   (source)
  • Circe will try to make you see a monster when there is only a kitten, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • When she hurt, so did I, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • But then, not many of the boys in that town were at ease with girls, or vice versa.†   (source)
  • He kisses the side of my head and says good night and then laces his fingers through my mine like he always does; like he's reminding me that he's still here, or maybe vice versa.†   (source)
  • Boys will be boys, John, and the distractions of life are there to color your work, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • Some of the Native children I've had in my classes over the years could almost pass for Japanese, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • I held off out of respect and also, I must admit, out of pride, because he should have sought me out and not vice versa.†   (source)
  • A dry run at midnight with dummy patients in both operating rooms had uncovered a few critical glitches: anesthesia from Boston General needed a better orientation to the setup at Our Lady, and there was need to anoint a "ringmaster" whose job was to be timekeeper, to keep abreast of the activities of both teams, and who was the only person authorized to carry and, most important, record all messages from Team R to Team D and vice versa.†   (source)
  • I came here to see you, and I don't think I should discuss Mia with you or vice versa."†   (source)
  • Because when I'm asleep there, I'm awake here and vice versa.†   (source)
  • I've illuminated the blackness of my invisibility-and vice versa.†   (source)
  • They say this Jackal character has a big thing against this Bourne and vice versa, but it don't cut no ice with me.†   (source)
  • And vice versa.†   (source)
  • Well, you have friends, and so have I. You have friends I can use, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • For them the blue time is like normal daylight and vice versa.†   (source)
  • There is an absurd inconsistency in how words sound and are spelled, which permits through, threw, true, and too all to rhyme, as do cough and off, rough and ruff Some verbs may be nouns, and vice versa, identifiable only by their position in a sentence, as in My drawing shows him drawing his bow.†   (source)
  • If Grandpa weren't so old, I'd swear he was sweet on Miss Love, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • She's used those little packages that come out pink if you are …. and it's pink or vice versa.†   (source)
  • Each duck species has a very unique and distinct sound; you can't call a wood duck with a green-winged teal call or vice versa.†   (source)
  • Hey, brown-eyes, anything that touches you, touches Roarke now, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • But real stumbler turned out to be stories I had marked "funny" and Wyoh had judged "not" or vice versa; Wyoh asked Mike his opinion of each.†   (source)
  • In fact they will mate with dogs, or vice versa, whenever the opportunity arises.†   (source)
  • Maidens aspiring to godheads ROS: And vice versa GUIL: Your kind of thing, is it?†   (source)
  • Fanatic in its identification of Jews with international Communism, and vice versa, the movement was especially influential in the universities, where in the early 1920s physical violence against Jewish students became endemic.†   (source)
  • He blows the whistle and the music stops, leaving the Jet boys opposite Sharks girls, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • And vice versa.†   (source)
  • Sledgewig sounded to Mrs. Shortley like something you would name a bug, or vice versa, as if you named a boy Bollweevil.†   (source)
  • "And vice versa," I said, smiling at her.†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: [to the GROCER'S WIFE] Your husband's right, the Asiatic rhinoceros has two horns and the African one must have two, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • He could not open the door without first closing the closet door, and vice versa.   (source)
  • The tulip is not a reason for disbelief in the hanged man, or vice versa.†   (source)
  • BORIS HAD GROWN TO like my father, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • Durin my conversation with Jan, she spent more time comforting me than vice versa.†   (source)
  • So quick guards had to guard power forwards, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • When you think it'll be quick, they take days, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • I didn't want Art3mis to like Aech, or vice versa.†   (source)
  • Or vice versa: that which is right survives.†   (source)
  • Seniors had to guard freshmen, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • None of my teachers or fellow students knew who I really was, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • Kyle knew what Ian would do before Ian did it, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • The name had been given a face, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • I mean, they called you, not vice versa?†   (source)
  • Sam could only hear the thoughts Jacob wanted to share, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • Hadn't she said he was the one person she could really talk to, and vice versa?†   (source)
  • Or perhaps she's softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late.†   (source)
  • After a long, frigid night lasting several days' worth of time, a brief but scorching day might follow, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • And vice versa.†   (source)
  • My little sister Kathy and I would creep to the top of the stairs in our underwear, listening as the Big Kids had animated conversations about "changing the system" and "the revolution," extolling the virtues of Martin Luther King over Malcolm X and vice versa, and playing records by the Last Poets.†   (source)
  • Kate paid close attention, careful not to mistake short for long or vice versa, making sure to recognize pauses.†   (source)
  • By that he meant that it was just as new and just as radically different from former thinking as when Copernicus claimed that the earth revolved around the sun and not vice versa.†   (source)
  • And vice versa, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • Or vice versa.†   (source)
  • So, of course you know the relations between Illea and Swendway are old and strong, drawing many Swendish people to settle here, making small communities, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • The whole day struck him as a tantalizing dance, in which each of them had taken turns leading, one pushing, the other pulling, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • That being said …. we are not in the habit in this country of allowing the government to define what a church is, or vice versa.†   (source)
  • Emma was good for Henry and vice versa; as they often told others, they were too busy laughing together to have any time to argue.†   (source)
  • Miles, surprisingly, had been all but ignored, though the fact that Jonah was fond of Sarah—and vice versa—left him feeling strangely satisfied.†   (source)
  • But at times like this, it looked a lot like Whitney, and vice versa, so it was hard to tell the difference.†   (source)
  • Think I prefer a place as openly racist as India, where if you aren't Hindu, you're nobody—except that Parsees look down on Hindus and vice versa.†   (source)
  • I read once that you get déjà vu when the two halves of your brain process things at different speeds: the right half a few seconds before the left, or vice versa.†   (source)
  • You're my best friend, and this feels exactly like the time you disappeared to Hedestad two years ago, only vice versa.†   (source)
  • …of spirit, that they keep switching from one to the other, that the men you call materialists and spiritualists are only two halves of the same dissected human, forever seeking completion, but seeking it by swinging from the destruction of the flesh to the destruction of the soul and vice versa-that they keep running from your colleges to the slave pens of Europe to an open collapse into the mystic muck of India, seeking any refuge against reality, any form of escape from the mind.†   (source)
  • They told her they'd get released and go back to the street, which was another department of the penal system and vice versa, and they'd go back and do what they'd always done, they told her.†   (source)
  • She knew it was an idle threat; many of the Surdan people had relatives in the Varden, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • He made the call and turned on the TV, or vice versa, without the sound, his hand wound in a doubled hanky, and he never felt so easy talking to someone on the phone or face-to-face or man to woman as he felt that day talking to Sue Ann.†   (source)
  • And vice versa.†   (source)
  • Winters—about how complex and connected everything is, all threaded together like some vast, invisible netting—and how sometimes you can think you're doing the right thing, but it's actually terrible and vice versa.†   (source)
  • But not vice versa.†   (source)
  • Minor flourishes—soundprooflng Wyoh's door such as workshop door already had, switching to suppress my instrument or hers, signals to tell me she was alone in her room and door locked, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • And vice versa.†   (source)
  • Just graduated from college, daughter of a manufacturer of molded plastics, restricted by the vicissitudes of life and the recent war to travel no further from Brooklyn than Lake Winnepesaukee, New Hampshire (where, she laughingly told me, she had gone for ten summers to Camp Nehoc—a widespread patronymic spelled backward), she said I was the first person from the South to whom she had ever spoken a word, or vice versa.†   (source)
  • Now, one often sees a blue ribbon on a pink box, and vice versa, but a box of one colour, and a lid of another-no, decidedly-ca ne se voit jamais!†   (source)
  • The Wynand papers stood against Privilege and for the Common Man, but in a respectable manner that could shock nobody; they exposed monopolies, when they wished; they supported strikes, when they wished, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • The modern student may, of course, study these symbols as he will, either as a symptom of others' ignorance, or as a sign to him of his own, either in terms of a reduction of metaphysics to psychology, or vice versa.†   (source)
  • Now it is possible to be possessed by God and to affirm the sinner, and vice versa, but it is not possible for either saint or sinner (or for any other of the unconditioned) to affirm as well that lukewarm mean, the bourgeois.†   (source)
  • Stanley: In the state of Louisiana we have the Napoleonic code according to which what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband and vice versa.†   (source)
  • There was only opportunity for one blow at a time, so they more or less took it in turns, King Pellinore striking while Sir Grummore was recovering, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • Francie liked to play a game in which she imagined that people looked like their pets and vice versa.†   (source)
  • At the first of these the Vicar is a man who has been so long engaged in watering down the faith to make it easier for supposedly incredulous and hard-headed congregation that it is now he who shocks his parishioners with his unbelief, not vice versa.†   (source)
  • The flowing life which comes from the sense of order in chaos, or, if you prefer, from unity in diversity, as well as vice versa, which is the realization of the contradiction inherent in architecture, is here absolutely absent.†   (source)
  • Stanley: There is such a thing in this State of Louisiana as the Napoleonic code, according to which whatever belongs to my wife is also mine — and vice versa.†   (source)
  • Then, after several journeys from King's pavilion to Constable's, and vice versa, Sir Bors returned to his own hole.†   (source)
  • The same thing happens vice versa.†   (source)
  • From the granary there proceeded an invariable thumping of flails; in the strip fields the slow and enormously heavy wooden ploughs sailed up and down for the rye and the wheat, while the sowers swung rhythmically along, with their hoffers round their necks, casting right hand for left foot and vice versa.†   (source)
  • Thus, if this new year isn't a happy one for me, it will be for him, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • Look at the Greek pediment inscribed upon the Roman pediment, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • The French Government contracts certain obligations which do not exist in America, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • When Nippers' was on, Turkey's was off; and vice versa.†   (source)
  • He came from Mecklenburg, and to judge from appearances, he was obviously the product of an ancient mixing of races, the blending of Germanic blood with Slavic-Wendish, or vice versa.†   (source)
  • And so to 'take the Guermantes way' in order to get to Meseglise, or vice versa, would have seemed to me as nonsensical a proceeding as to turn to the east in order to reach the west.†   (source)
  • Taking off his spectacles, as was his habit before enunciating a general truth, he looked into them sadly, and remarked that the darker races are physically attracted by the fairer, but not _vice versa_—not a matter for bitterness this, not a matter for abuse, but just a fact which any scientific observer will confirm.†   (source)
  • The very unconsciousness of a looming drama which is shown in such innocent first epistles from women to men, or vice versa, makes them, when such a drama follows, and they are read over by the purple or lurid light of it, all the more impressive, solemn, and in cases, terrible.†   (source)
  • And the physical merges into the intellectual, and vice versa, and cannot be differentiated, and stupidity and cleverness cannot be differentiated.†   (source)
  • He had been part of this world too long for that; and it was not he who made use of it against this aggressor, but vice versa; so that everything happened now with a kind of matter-of-fact simplicity—from the first moment when the consul felt a vague suspicion drift over him, emanating from his nephew and telling him that his project was hopeless, until the very end, the final conclusion, to which, admittedly, Hans Castorp could not help appending a melancholy smile.†   (source)
  • And indeed new costumes arrived now: ladies in men's clothes, their ample curves making them look as implausible as characters in an operetta, an effect accentuated by black beards drawn on their faces with burnt cork; and vice versa, gentlemen attired in women's clothes, tripping over their skirts—including Rasmussen the student, who wore a black, jet-trimmed gown, its decolletage revealing a pimply chest and ditto back, both of which he tried to cool with a paper fan.†   (source)
  • Or vice versa?†   (source)
  • He visited his "good friend Anna Pavlovna" as well as his daughter's "diplomatic salon," and often in his constant comings and goings between the two camps became confused and said at Helene's what he should have said at Anna Pavlovna's and vice versa.†   (source)
  • It seems an easier and shorter way to dignity, to observe that—since there never was a true story which could not be told in parables, where you might put a monkey for a margrave, and vice versa—whatever has been or is to be narrated by me about low people, may be ennobled by being considered a parable; so that if any bad habits and ugly consequences are brought into view, the reader may have the relief of regarding them as not more than figuratively ungenteel, and may feel himself…†   (source)
  • But, by the best contradictory authorities, this Grecian story of Hercules and the whale is considered to be derived from the still more ancient Hebrew story of Jonah and the whale; and vice versa; certainly they are very similar.†   (source)
  • When Miss Crawley arrives there is no such thing as quarrelling heard of—the Hall visits the Rectory, and vice versa—the parson and the Baronet talk about the pigs and the poachers, and the county business, in the most affable manner, and without quarrelling in their cups, I believe—indeed Miss Crawley won't hear of their quarrelling, and vows that she will leave her money to the Shropshire Crawleys if they offend her.†   (source)
  • If quacks prosper as often as they go to the wall—if zanies succeed and knaves arrive at fortune, and, vice versa, sharing ill luck and prosperity for all the world like the ablest and most honest amongst us—I say, brother, the gifts and pleasures of Vanity Fair cannot be held of any great account, and that it is probable …. but we are wandering out of the domain of the story.†   (source)
  • So that the greater the conception of necessity the smaller the conception of freedom and vice versa.†   (source)
  • This assumption is all the more natural and inevitable because, watching the movement of history, we see that every year and with each new writer, opinion as to what is good for mankind changes; so that what once seemed good, ten years later seems bad, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • (2) The movement of nations is caused not by power, nor by intellectual activity, nor even by a combination of the two as historians have supposed, but by the activity of all the people who participate in the events, and who always combine in such a way that those taking the largest direct share in the event take on themselves the least responsibility and vice versa.†   (source)
  • As she was in mourning Princess Mary did not go out into society, and Nicholas did not think it the proper thing to visit her again; but all the same the governor's wife went on with her matchmaking, passing on to Nicholas the flattering things Princess Mary said of him and vice versa, and insisting on his declaring himself to Princess Mary.†   (source)
  • BLOOM: (Her hands and features working) It was Gerald converted me to be a true corsetlover when I was female impersonator in the High School play Vice Versa.†   (source)
  • …in her convalescent bathchair with slow revolutions of its wheels as far as the corner of the North Circular road opposite Mr Gavin Low's place of business where she had remained for a certain time scanning through his onelensed binocular fieldglasses unrecognisable citizens on tramcars, roadster bicycles equipped with inflated pneumatic tyres, hackney carriages, tandems, private and hired landaus, dogcarts, ponytraps and brakes passing from the city to the Phoenix Park and vice versa.†   (source)
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