All 10 Uses of
contrary
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
- It was on the contrary because she felt too wide-eyed and wished to check the sense of seeing too many things at once.†
Chpt 4 *
- I'm just the contrary.†
Chpt 6 *
- The letter she carried in her pocket all sufficiently reminded her of the contrary.†
Chpt 12
- Then she viewed with reserve a habit he had of dressing always in the same manner; it was not apparently that he wore the same clothes continually, for, on the contrary, his garments had a way of looking rather too new.†
Chpt 13
- On the contrary I should be so glad if you would play something more.†
Chpt 18
- "On the contrary," said Mrs. Touchett, who rarely missed a logical point; "if I remembered your telling me would be quite superfluous."†
Chpt 18
- On the contrary, I was once in love with her.†
Chpt 18
- "It's not that I'm afraid of your repeating what I say," her fellow visitor answered; "I'm afraid, on the contrary, of your taking it too much to yourself.†
Chpt 19
- Nothing that belongs to me is any measure of me; everything's on the contrary a limit, a barrier, and a perfectly arbitrary one.†
Chpt 19
- It was the graceful contrary of the stupid side of weakness—especially the feminine variety.†
Chpt 20