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  • Antagonists at Arms (And an Absolution†   (source)
  • This sort of thing has been happening to others in my faction for months now—the Erudite have been releasing antagonistic reports about Abnegation, and it has begun to affect the way we relate at school.†   (source)
  • Try to be a little less antagonistic.†   (source)
  • Yet they didn't seem overly antagonistic, despite the hour.†   (source)
  • Not just unwilling to change, but antagonistic to the very idea of change.†   (source)
  • She is my forever antagonist.†   (source)
  • No one wants it really…despite what his antagonists in the other dimension might think.†   (source)
  • I mean, that's how antagonistic she was.†   (source)
  • This plan was opposed by the special assistant prosecuting attorney, Logan Green, who, certain that "temporary insanity" was the defense his antagonists would attempt to sustain in the forth-coming trial, feared that the ultimate outcome of the proposal would be, as he predicted in private conversation, the appearance on the witness stand of a "pack of head-healers" sympathetic to the defendants ("Those fellows, they're always crying over the killers.†   (source)
  • These two doctrines existed in uneasy harmony, although I did not then see them as antagonistic.†   (source)
  • After two more bouts, Glaedr withdrew to the role of a—very vocal—spectator, while he had Arya take his place as Eragon's antagonist.†   (source)
  • Plus, support groups get a little antagonistic when you don't talk.†   (source)
  • 'You're antagonistic to the idea of being robbed, exploited, degraded, humiliated or deceived.†   (source)
  • Once word got out about his acceptance, he noticed a grimness start to come over his antagonists in the halls.†   (source)
  • You must believe me when I say not all among the Circle are so antagonistic as Thomas.†   (source)
  • It was unlikely—the Gerentate was a long, long way from where I was going, and besides, despite fairly friendly—or at least, not openly antagonistic— relations between the Gerentate and the Radch, as a matter of policy the Gerentate didn't supply any information at all about its residents—not to the Radch.†   (source)
  • Eve compensated by being surly and antagonistic with her snitch and nearly losing a lead on a case involving bootlegged chemicals.†   (source)
  • It was because of "Publicola" that "our names [were] thrown on the public stage as public antagonists.†   (source)
  • A dim impulse, like the recoil of an antagonist, made her want to check on what strength was left to her.†   (source)
  • NICK (Antagonistic) No ….†   (source)
  • That antagonist will be Booth.†   (source)
  • Then, as he had done five years previous, he hopped up on the table and walked toward his chief antagonist.†   (source)
  • It rose higher and higher until Lou figured the trees must surely topple from the force, or the rocks would work loose and slide down the mountain and maybe, with luck, crush their antagonist.†   (source)
  • They could have done him no real harm, of course, but the shock and pain of having a number of his toes nipped simultaneously by an unknown antagonist must have been considerable.†   (source)
  • The roads confound him; they've knotted up, dark, antagonistic; he pits himself against them, valiant, a man doing battle for love.†   (source)
  • The scene was one that, until the perfection of underwater television, few men had ever glimpsed-and even then only for seconds on those rare occasions when the giant antagonists thrashed their way to the surface.†   (source)
  • Cries of no, never, throw the traitor out, till this barmaid, little starlet, sweet on Konrad, cold-conks with a stein his loudest antagonist.†   (source)
  • I set down most of it here: Son, ten days ago my dear friend and political & philosophical antagonist Frank Hobbs dropped dead at his office in the shipyard.†   (source)
  • Her answer was long, rambling, antagonistic, and evasive.†   (source)
  • I must defend all points of view myself, my own antagonist.†   (source)
  • A few were antagonistic and openly so; like Ammu they saw their share of the food shrinking with each additional mouth.†   (source)
  • For upon the heels of his election, the jealous and antagonistic Timothy Pickering (who had been dismissed as Secretary of State by his father) was selected as Adams' Senatorial colleague to fill a short-term vacancy.†   (source)
  • They were like two antagonists, silently sparring.†   (source)
  • He shrugged, openly antagonistic now, provoking her purposely, she suspected.†   (source)
  • The remaining peasants, who viewed newly introduced approaches to agriculture with resentment and suspicion, proved antagonistic to even the smallest efforts at innovation.†   (source)
  • You can prove the practicality of planned parenthood till you get tired of listening to yourself and it's going to go nowhere because your antagonist isn't buying the assumption that anything socially practical is good per se.†   (source)
  • He also felt antagonistic to the Aristotelian tradition as a definer of values, but he didn't feel this tradition should be left unreckoned with.†   (source)
  • So ten days later, Party Premier Malenkov was forced to pass his chairmanship of the Secretariat to the conservative Khrushchev, setting the stage for a duumvirate of antagonists—a delicate balance of authority between two men of contrary views and ambiguous alliances, which would keep the world guessing for a few years to come.†   (source)
  • The Chairman of the committee himself has suggested that critics who are not certain what Plato meant should be equally uncertain of what Socrates' antagonists in the dialogues meant.†   (source)
  • Their relationship was as antagonistic as ever; the only thing they agreed on now was that I should be kept away from my baby until I was one hundred percent recovered from my temper tantrum.†   (source)
  • First of all, I said, no self-respecting freedom fighter would take orders from the government he is fighting against or jettison a longtime ally in the interest of pleasing an antagonist.†   (source)
  • No matter how loudly they posture in the roles of irreconcilable antagonists, their moral codes are alike, and so are their aims: in matter-the enslavement of man's body, in spirit-the destruction of his mind.†   (source)
  • A real devoted antagonist.†   (source)
  • The antagonist, of course, will win.†   (source)
  • The grand finale will be a moment straight from the stage, some stunning dramatic conclusion when antagonist and protagonist meet face-to-face, settling their differences once and for all.†   (source)
  • They have taught him that his body and his consciousness are two enemies engaged in deadly conflict, two antagonists of opposite natures, contradictory claims, incompatible needs, that to benefit one is to injure the other, that his soul belongs to a supernatural realm, but his body is an evil prison holding it in bondage to this earth-and that the good is to defeat his body, to undermine it by years of patient struggle, digging his way to that glorious jail-break which leads into the…†   (source)
  • If he did, I promised myself, he would be facing an antagonist crazed with fear, a desire to live, and carrying a baseball bat that would remove heads if the occasion required.†   (source)
  • The intellect of the Puritan—of John Quincy Adams and his forebears—was, as George Frisbie Hoar has said: fit for exact ethical discussion, clear in seeing general truths, active, unresting, fond of inquiry and debate, but penetrated and restrained by a shrewd common sense…… He had a tenacity of purpose, a lofty and inflexible courage, an unbending will, which never qualified or flinched before human antagonist, or before exile, torture, or death.†   (source)
  • When a Southern antagonist taunted him on the Senate floor that his vote against the Kansas-Nebraska Bill had now insured his defeat, Houstonmerely replied with a graceful smile that it was true "that I have received an earnest and gratifying assurance from my constituents that they intend to relieve me of further service here…… " He was not mistaken.†   (source)
  • He ought to resign from the Senate now, said the antagonistic Gazette, instead of "holding on to the barren office …. merely to receive his per diem allowance."†   (source)
  • Because it made Colonel Julyan antagonistic, it put him on our side.†   (source)
  • Then abruptly he makes Hickey again the antagonist.†   (source)
  • The spirit of man, enslaved, sobs in the silence of boredom, the bitter antagonist.†   (source)
  • Thus a novel starts in us all sorts of antagonistic and opposed emotions.†   (source)
  • And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.†   (source)
  • At another place he encountered his antagonist, Tezcatlipoca, who defeated him at a game of ball.†   (source)
  • But usually she made an occasional nagging retort: deep down, between their blind antagonistic souls, an ugly and desperate war was being waged.†   (source)
  • Here would be Sir Gawaine sitting on his antagonist's chest, and finishing him off, through the ventails of his helm, with the long sharp poinard called the Mercy of God.†   (source)
  • From the beginning of history, the two antagonists have stood face to face: the creator and the second-hander.†   (source)
  • Universal too is the casting of the antagonist, the representative of evil, in the role of the clown.†   (source)
  • Just as though, the time for it coming round, we left what company we were in and went privately to take a few falls with our own select antagonist in his secret room, like inside a mountain or down in a huge root-cellar.†   (source)
  • There they were, in their astonishing contradictions: the business man who had no business method, and yet had made his million dollars; the frantic antagonist of Capital who had given the loyal service of a lifetime to the thing he denounced; the wastrel son, with the bull vitality of the athlete, a great laugh, animal charm—no more; the musician son, a college rebel, intelligent, fanatic, with a good head for figures; insane miserliness for oneself, lavish expenditure for one's…†   (source)
  • …hide the story of his birth, the wretched son found himself the acknowledged brother of Gawaine, Agravaine, Gaheris and Gareth—found himself lovingly treated by the King-father whom his mother had taught him to hate with all his heart—found himself misshapen, intelligent, critical, in a civilization which was too straightforward for purely intellectual criticism—found himself, finally, the heir to a northern culture which has always been antagonistic to the blunt morals of the south.†   (source)
  • 5) the antagonist of the Future Buddha wasKama-Mara, literally "Desire-Hostility," or "Love and Death," the magician of Delusion.†   (source)
  • Differences of inside and outside hard to reconcile; for up to the threshold of a salon like this there was a tremendous high tension and antagonistic energy asked to lie still that couldn't lie still; and trying to contain it caused worry and shivers, the kind of thing that could erupt in raging, bloody Gordon or Chartist riots and shoot up fire like the burning of a mountain of egg crates.†   (source)
  • She did so with a hundred, a thousand, a hundred thousand roars, so that the elephant of the Antagonist fell upon its knees in obeisance to the Future Buddha.†   (source)
  • Whirlwind, rocks, thunder and flame, smoking weapons with keen edges, burning coals, hot ashes, boiling mud, blistering sands and fourfold darkness, the Antagonist hurled against the Savior, but the missiles were all transformed into celestial flowers and ointments by the power of Gautama's ten perfections.†   (source)
  • On the ground, children from Devil's Row closed in on their antagonist.†   (source)
  • Miriam and her brother were naturally antagonistic.†   (source)
  • But the blows of the antagonist began to grow more weak.†   (source)
  • He watched the door for his antagonist to enter.†   (source)
  • I was convinced that man's strongest antagonist is the cold.†   (source)
  • Knell coolly eyed his antagonist, his strange face not changing in the least.†   (source)
  • The calm impudence of his antagonist had evidently thrown him off his usual balance.†   (source)
  • They parleyed briskly for a moment—then Barban nodded and bowed coldly to his late antagonist.†   (source)
  • "Kids—child's play!" scoffed his antagonist.†   (source)
  • He wondered what his antagonist was doing.†   (source)
  • Curly rushed her antagonist, who struck again and leaped aside.†   (source)
  • There were antagonistic forces at war within him.†   (source)
  • If those men had been worthy antagonists of his class he would never have scorned them.†   (source)
  • It would seem they were regarding this new antagonist with astonishment.†   (source)
  • In a short while the three antagonists could be seen together in an amiable bunch.†   (source)
  • With Clara he took on a smart, worldly, mocking tone very antagonistic to Miriam.†   (source)
  • It gave him a tremendous advantage over his antagonists.†   (source)
  • His housemate and antagonist was doing no better.†   (source)
  • He was hit hard under the ear, and went reeling, trying to face round towards his unseen antagonist.†   (source)
  • The outlaw was keen, and he had expected a shrinking, or at least a frightened antagonist.†   (source)
  • Nothing crackled between the antagonists now, no lightning flashed, no current surged.†   (source)
  • What strength had I to dart retaliation at my antagonist?†   (source)
  • His only redress is forthwith to draw a circle outside of his antagonist.†   (source)
  • Hurry first attempted to throw his antagonist.†   (source)
  • Bazarov flung aside the pistol, and went up to his antagonist.†   (source)
  • "Your challenge would soon be answered," replied the Palmer, "were your antagonist near you.†   (source)
  • Then turning to Mr. Bennet, he offered himself as his antagonist at backgammon.†   (source)
  • Without ado, Ben-Hur walked to his antagonist.†   (source)
  • The five antagonists of Phileas Fogg had met in the great saloon of the club.†   (source)
  • I hastened to prevent an intrusion, and then immediately returned to my dying antagonist.†   (source)
  • When Uncas had brained his first antagonist, he turned, like a hungry lion, to seek another.†   (source)
  • He turned to confront his antagonist, and behold, there stood his old master's next door neighbor!†   (source)
  • The antagonists stood forty paces apart at the farther edge of the clearing.†   (source)
  • He planted on Donald an antagonistic glare that had begun as a smile.†   (source)
  • I give you notice—You will find me a formidable antagonist on that point.†   (source)
  • This brief direction to Charley Bates, and his recent antagonist, was softly and immediately obeyed.†   (source)
  • And how will Christian rejoice to hear of this happy transformation of his old antagonist!†   (source)
  • I say that, on that day, each knight ran three courses, and cast to the ground three antagonists.†   (source)
  • It was my antagonist--it was Wilson, who then stood before me in the agonies of his dissolution.†   (source)
  • At the same time Farfrae discerned his late antagonist.†   (source)
  • When there were quarrels, his kindly smile and well-timed jests reconciled the antagonists.†   (source)
  • At Messala, who was more than an antagonist to him, he gave one searching look.†   (source)
  • At the last word Ben-Hur closed with his antagonist.†   (source)
  • One saying I remember—'Understand your antagonist before you answer him.'†   (source)
  • Of that antagonist, and of that conception of repentance, how much is left that could be used in a play by me dedicated to you?†   (source)
  • Yet, at this moment contrasting her own wretched and neglected state with that of this Miss Stark, for example, she found herself a prey to an even more complaining and antagonistic mood than had hitherto characterized her.†   (source)
  • It becomes a force of its own opposed to life, an antagonistic principle, the great seduction— and its kingdom is lust.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Dorset was pale with temper, and her antagonist felt a certain pleasure in prolonging her distress.†   (source)
  • We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when you call to-morrow.†   (source)
  • The bullet struck so low down that probably his antagonist would never have aimed at that part of him—people never do; he would have aimed at his chest or head; so that probably the bullet hit him accidentally.†   (source)
  • The street, the children, the fruit vender, the flowers growing there under her eyes, were all part and parcel of an alien world which had suddenly become antagonistic.†   (source)
  • I felt assured now that my tawny-faced antagonist was stalking me once more; and coupled with that was another unpleasant realisation, that I had lost my way.†   (source)
  • He was not speaking to me, he was only speaking before me, in a dispute with an invisible personality, an antagonistic and inseparable partner of his existence—another possessor of his soul.†   (source)
  • Carley liked the girl's looks and liked the sincerity of her greeting; but instinctively she reacted antagonistically because of the frank suggestion of intimacy with Glenn.†   (source)
  • Swifter than a horse, as quick as a cat, he launched his bulk at his antagonist, and hit him with a shock no less terrific than the one that had opened the battle.†   (source)
  • Izz spoke with a magnanimous abandonment of herself to the situation; she could not be—no woman with a heart bigger than a hazel-nut could be—antagonistic to Tess in her presence, the influence which she exercised over those of her own sex being of a warmth and strength quite unusual, curiously overpowering the less worthy feminine feelings of spite and rivalry.†   (source)
  • For the most part, the remaining four hunters leaned on the table or lay in their bunks and left the discussion to the two antagonists.†   (source)
  • One day the young man, Pete, who as a lad had smitten the Devil's Row urchin in the back of the head and put to flight the antagonists of his friend, Jimmie, strutted upon the scene.†   (source)
  • Armand, according to Chauvelin's pledged word would be restored to her, but her husband, Percy, whom with every breath she drew she seemed to love and worship more and more, he would fall into the hands of a remorseless enemy, who had no pity for a brave heart, no admiration for the courage of a noble soul, who would show nothing but hatred for the cunning antagonist, who had baffled him so long.†   (source)
  • As an actress even in the fullest flush of her own conscious magnetism gets a deep impression of most of the people in the front row, so Isabelle sized up her antagonist.†   (source)
  • There were in Patusan antagonistic forces, and one of them was Rajah Allang, the worst of the Sultan's uncles, the governor of the river, who did the extorting and the stealing, and ground down to the point of extinction the country-born Malays, who, utterly defenceless, had not even the resource of emigrating—"For indeed," as Stein remarked, "where could they go, and how could they get away?"†   (source)
  • The faint disdain of her smile seemed to lift her high above her antagonist's reach, and it was not till she had given Mrs. Dorset the full measure of the distance between them that she turned and extended her hand to her hostess.†   (source)
  • One of the men desisted and turned towards him, and my brother, realising from his antagonist's face that a fight was unavoidable, and being an expert boxer, went into him forthwith and sent him down against the wheel of the chaise.†   (source)
  • An indulgent smile might have been expected at this point, but so antagonistic and bitter was the general public toward Clyde that such levity was out of the question in this courtroom.†   (source)
  • The children appeared before her like antagonists who had overcome her; who had overpowered and sought to drag her into the soul's slavery for the rest of her days.†   (source)
  • He was in a savage temper, and, standing over six feet from the ground, was as formidable an antagonist as even Buck could desire.†   (source)
  • And yet I have not the heart to disappoint you wholly of another glimpse of the Mozartian dissoluto punito and his antagonist the statue.†   (source)
  • Lily's visit to the Dorsets had resulted, for both, in the discovery that they could be of use to each other; and the civilized instinct finds a subtler pleasure in making use of its antagonist than in confounding him.†   (source)
  • Skeet and Nig were too good-natured for quarrelling,—besides, they belonged to John Thornton; but the strange dog, no matter what the breed or valor, swiftly acknowledged Buck's supremacy or found himself struggling for life with a terrible antagonist.†   (source)
  • There was a pause, during which Marguerite could watch these two antagonists who, evidently in their minds, were measuring themselves against one another.†   (source)
  • Mr. Wicksteed was a man of forty-five or forty-six, steward to Lord Burdock, of inoffensive habits and appearance, the very last person in the world to provoke such a terrible antagonist.†   (source)
  • He heard the clatter of hoofs, the whip stung across his face, a third antagonist struck him between the eyes, and the man he held wrenched himself free and made off down the lane in the direction from which he had come.†   (source)
  • The battery was disputing with a distant antagonist and the gunners were wrapped in admiration of their shooting.†   (source)
  • …was perfectly awful— so "highbrow" that I picture you living in an intellectual and emotional vacuum; and beware of trying to classify people too definitely into types; you will find that all through their youth they will persist annoyingly in jumping from class to class, and by pasting a supercilious label on every one you meet you are merely packing a Jack-in-the-box that will spring up and leer at you when you begin to come into really antagonistic contact with the world.†   (source)
  • Even the more abstract parts of the Don Juan play are dilapidated past use: for instance, Don Juan's supernatural antagonist hurled those who refuse to repent into lakes of burning brimstone, there to be tormented by devils with horns and tails.†   (source)
  • In the morning he had still been simply a legend, a terror; in the afternoon, by virtue chiefly of Kemp's drily worded proclamation, he was presented as a tangible antagonist, to be wounded, captured, or overcome, and the countryside began organising itself with inconceivable rapidity.†   (source)
  • Naphta's crude end, that terrorist deed committed by a caustically desperate antagonist, had been a terrible blow to his sensitive nature; he had been unable to get over it, had been frail and subject to fainting spells ever since.†   (source)
  • He saw the silent circle, with gleaming eyes, lolling tongues, and silvery breaths drifting upward, closing in upon him as he had seen similar circles close in upon beaten antagonists in the past.†   (source)
  • These last were the two antagonistic forces which fought out their battle in her breast during the long watches of the night; and when she rose the next morning she hardly knew where the victory lay.†   (source)
  • No anxiety is caused on Don Juan's account by any minor antagonist: he easily eludes the police, temporal and spiritual; and when an indignant father seeks private redress with the sword, Don Juan kills him without an effort.†   (source)
  • One may picture, too, the sudden shifting of the attention, the swiftly spreading coils and bellyings of that blackness advancing headlong, towering heavenward, turning the twilight to a palpable darkness, a strange and horrible antagonist of vapour striding upon its victims, men and horses near it seen dimly, running, shrieking, falling headlong, shouts of dismay, the guns suddenly abandoned, men choking and writhing on the ground, and the swift broadening-out of the opaque cone of…†   (source)
  • Though she and her hostess had not met since the latter's tentative discussion of her future, Lily knew that the acuteness which enabled Mrs. Fisher to lay a safe and pleasant course through a world of antagonistic forces was not infrequently exercised for the benefit of her friends.†   (source)
  • There you see the kind of humanism that absolutely does not become ensnared in contradictions, that is in no way guilty of a retreat into Christian toadying, even though it resolves to see in the body the evil force, the antagonist.†   (source)
  • And meanwhile the military and naval authorities, now fully alive to the tremendous power of their antagonists, worked with furious energy.†   (source)
  • Then came a mighty effort, and the Invisible Man threw off a couple of his antagonists and rose to his knees.†   (source)
  • Suddenly he stumbled and fell; his immediate pursuer went headlong, and he rose to his feet to find himself with a couple of antagonists again.†   (source)
  • Then it was all over for the antagonists, they stepped back into the shadows, became insignificant, and Peeperkorn grabbed the scepter—directed, decided, ordered, commanded, controlled.†   (source)
  • And they resumed their visits to Settembrini and Naphta, as well as walks with those two antagonistic allies; when they were joined by A. K. Ferge and Ferdinand Wehsal, which frequently happened, that made a party of four before which the two intellectual adversaries could engage in constant duels—and we could not hope to present them in their entirety without fear of likewise losing ourselves in the same desperate infinitude into which they daily threw themselves for their large…†   (source)
  • For us to criticize the methods and forms by which human beings come to know things, to question their validity per se, would be absurd, dishonorable, antagonistic, if we did so for any other purpose than to point out those limits to reason that reason can never overstep without being guilty of neglecting its own tasks.†   (source)
  • Too polite to say what he thought, he confined himself to remarks concerning errors in proportion and anatomical defects in the figures; such offenses against the truth of nature did not come close to moving him, he said, since they were based not on any primitive lack of skill but arose out of willful malice, out of an antagonistic principle.†   (source)
  • The strange, upheaving, lifting tendency of the taffrail breeze filling the hollows of so many sails, made the buoyant, hovering deck to feel like air beneath the feet; while still she rushed along, as if two antagonistic influences were struggling in her—one to mount direct to heaven, the other to drive yawingly to some horizontal goal.†   (source)
  • Benjamin worked away, with great industry and a good deal of skill, at his occupation, using one hand to raise up his antagonist, while he knocked him over with the other; for he would have been disgraced in his own estimation, had he struck a blow on a fallen adversary.†   (source)
  • You are my antagonist, with this difference from real warfare, that I shall miss you every time by one hair's breadth, or perhaps two.†   (source)
  • Thus it is that, by respecting all democratic tendencies not absolutely contrary to herself, and by making use of several of them for her own purposes, religion sustains an advantageous struggle with that spirit of individual independence which is her most dangerous antagonist.†   (source)
  • Yes, he is a terrible antagonist.†   (source)
  • "I had not forgotten that," cried Katerina Ivanovna, coming to a sudden standstill, "and why are you so antagonistic at such a moment?" she added, with warm and bitter reproachfulness.†   (source)
  • …view considered the other side a muddle-headed and credulous set, who, because they themselves were wall-eyed, supposed everybody else to have the same blank outlook; and the adherents of the inexplicable more than hinted that their antagonists were animals inclined to crow before they had found any corn—mere skimming-dishes in point of depth—whose clear-sightedness consisted in supposing there was nothing behind a barn-door because they couldn't see through it; so that, though their…†   (source)
  • Cleopatra matters, beyond bounds, to Antony, but his colleagues, his antagonists, the state of Rome and the impending battle also prodigiously matter; Portia matters to Antonio, and to Shylock, and to the Prince of Morocco, to the fifty aspiring princes, but for these gentry there are other lively concerns; for Antonio, notably, there are Shylock and Bassanio and his lost ventures and the extremity of his predicament.†   (source)
  • As little does he think how near together he and his antagonist have suffered in the fortunes of two sisters, and his antagonist, who knows it now, is not the man to tell him.†   (source)
  • It was known that Merlin had been busy whole days and nights together, imbuing Sir Sagramor's arms and armor with supernal powers of offense and defense, and that he had procured for him from the spirits of the air a fleecy veil which would render the wearer invisible to his antagonist while still visible to other men.†   (source)
  • It is to be observed that the Union chose its own antagonist; and as that antagonist is feeble, he is naturally worsted.†   (source)
  • He had hitherto taken up a cold and even antagonistic attitude to this new doctrine, and with Countess Lidia Ivanovna, who had been carried away by it, he had never argued, but by silence had assiduously parried her attempts to provoke him into argument.†   (source)
  • It now comes boisterously from the northwest, and, taking hold of the aged framework of the Seven Gables, gives it a shake, like a wrestler that would try strength with his antagonist.†   (source)
  • Thus it comes about that the more completely the dramatist is emancipated from the illusion that men and women are primarily reasonable beings, and the more powerfully he insists on the ruthless indifference of their great dramatic antagonist, the external world, to their whims and emotions, the surer he is to be denounced as blind to the very distinction on which his whole work is built.†   (source)
  • But the Pawnee chief was not slow to discover that his crafty antagonist had no objection to waste the time so idly, and, as they mutually proved, in expedients that were so entirely useless.†   (source)
  • It was broken in the struggle; Nicholas gained the heavy handle, and with it laid open one side of his antagonist's face from the eye to the lip.†   (source)
  • They were antagonistic.†   (source)
  • Of the fate of his antagonist he said no more, it not being usual for a warrior to boast in his more direct and useful narratives.†   (source)
  • At first with the aristocracy; later on, with those portions of the bourgeoisie itself, whose interests have become antagonistic to the progress of industry; at all times, with the bourgeoisie of foreign countries.†   (source)
  • Three antagonistic growths had to be kept alive: his mother's trust in him, his plan for becoming a teacher, and Eustacia's happiness.†   (source)
  • Is he in a hardened or a softened mood, he still lays his injuries equally at that door; he was thwarted, in that quarter, of a set purpose, and that purpose could only originate in the one subject that is resolving his existence into itself; besides, it is a justification to him in his own eyes to have an embodied antagonist and oppressor.†   (source)
  • As for his antagonists, they seemed much agitated; not so much by the value of their stake, as because they had some scruples about betting under conditions so difficult to their friend.†   (source)
  • Not improbably he was the best workman of his time; or, perhaps, the Colonel thought it expedient, or was impelled by some better feeling, thus openly to cast aside all animosity against the race of his fallen antagonist.†   (source)
  • Piotr flew off; and while he was running for a droshky, the two antagonists sat on the ground and said nothing.†   (source)
  • D'Artagnan, half stupefied, without his doublet, and with his head bound up in a linen cloth, arose then, and urged by the host, began to descend the stairs; but on arriving at the kitchen, the first thing he saw was his antagonist talking calmly at the step of a heavy carriage, drawn by two large Norman horses.†   (source)
  • In Switzerland they support the Radicals, without losing sight of the fact that this party consists of antagonistic elements, partly of Democratic Socialists, in the French sense, partly of radical bourgeois.†   (source)
  • He exerted his physical powers on the present occasion, with much discretion; and, as he had taken his antagonist at a great disadvantage, the struggle resulted very soon in Benjamin getting the magistrate fixed in a posture somewhat similar to his own, and manfully placed face to face.†   (source)
  • Whether from a purely mechanical, or from any other cause, when Bathsheba arose it was with a quieted spirit, and a regret for the antagonistic instincts which had seized upon her just before.†   (source)
  • He felt for the first moment as a man feels when, having suddenly received a violent blow from behind, he turns round, angry and eager to avenge himself, to look for his antagonist, and finds that it is he himself who has accidentally struck himself, that there is no one to be angry with, and that he must put up with and try to soothe the pain.†   (source)
  • As long as family feeling was kept alive, the antagonist of oppression was never alone; he looked about him, and found his clients, his hereditary friends, and his kinsfolk.†   (source)
  • The best swordsman in the world doesn't need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn't do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn't prepared for him; he does the thing he ought not to do; and often it catches the expert out and ends him on the spot.†   (source)
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