All 14 Uses of
contrary
in
Fathers and Sons
- On the contrary, he was in still more torturing, still closer bondage to this woman, in whom, even at the very moment when she surrendered herself utterly, there seemed always something still mysterious and unattainable, to which none could penetrate.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1)
- But to Nikolai, there remained the sense of a well-spent life, his son was growing up under his eyes; Pavel, on the contrary, a solitary bachelor, was entering upon that indefinite twilight period of regrets that are akin to hopes, and hopes that are akin to regrets, when youth is over, while old age has not yet come.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1)
- On the contrary, now, if you will let me, I am ready to settle with you for good.'†
Chpt 7 (definition 1) *
- 'I'm convinced, on the contrary, that you and I are far more in the right than these young gentlemen, though we do perhaps express ourselves in old-fashioned language, vieilli, and have not the same insolent conceit….†
Chpt 10 (definition 1)
- Didn't you tell me yourself this morning that she made a strange marriage, though, to my mind, to marry a rich old man is by no means a strange thing to do, but, on the contrary, very sensible.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
- He, contrary to his habit, was talking a good deal, and obviously trying to interest her—again a surprise for Arkady.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2) *
- On the contrary, any one's more to be pitied when such a mischance befalls him.'†
Chpt 17 (definition 1)
- Quite the contrary, I maintain that for a thinking man nothing is a wilderness.†
Chpt 20 *
- Arkady, on the contrary, thought it his duty, if not to help his father, at least to make a show of being ready to help him.†
Chpt 22 (definition 1)
- 'No …. not at all …. on the contrary, I am much better.'†
Chpt 24 (definition 1)
- On the contrary, I am ready to obey; only inequality is intolerable.†
Chpt 25 (definition 1)
- 'On the contrary, I am certain I'm right,' retorted Arkady.†
Chpt 25 (definition 1)
- He knew Anna Sergyevna was sitting alone with Bazarov, and he felt no jealousy, as once he had; on the contrary, his face slowly brightened; he seemed to be at once wondering and rejoicing, and resolving on something.†
Chpt 25 (definition 1)
- 'Arrears, no indeed, mate!' answered the first peasant, and now there was no trace of patriarchal singsong in his voice; on the contrary, there was a certain scornful gruffness to be heard in it: 'Oh, he clacked away about something or other; wanted to stretch his tongue a bit.†
Chpt 27 (definition 1)