All 11 Uses of
contrary
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- On the contrary, to-day, in the train, he seemed particularly well; the idea of our reaching Rome—he's very fond of Rome, you know—gave him strength.†
Chpt 38 *
- "We hear, on the contrary, that you're doing great things.†
Chpt 38
- She would rest upon this till the contrary should be proved; proved more effectually than by a cynical intimation of Osmond's.†
Chpt 42
- On the contrary, it was because she was clever that she had pleased him.†
Chpt 42
- She always seemed a little frightened; yet her fright was not of the painful character that suggests dislike; on the contrary, she looked as if she knew that he knew she liked him.†
Chpt 43
- On the contrary, I took a great interest in it.†
Chpt 46
- There were no dukes and marquises there now; she remembered on the contrary one day when there were five American families, walking all round.†
Chpt 47
- "No, but you don't say the contrary, as you ought in common gratitude."†
Chpt 49 *
- Madame Merle's self-possession tended on the contrary to diminish, and she was nearer losing it than on any occasion on which we have had the pleasure of meeting her.†
Chpt 49
- "I don't believe she has suffered; on the contrary, she has enjoyed.†
Chpt 51
- Isabel had hoped that condition would subside; and she shrank into herself as she perceived that, on the contrary, he had only let out sail.†
Chpt 55