All 21 Uses of
contrary
in
The Portrait of a Lady
- 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
- 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