Opponent

Examples

• And before God, replied his opponent, fervently, do I receive it! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• My opponent had the advantage of birth over me (he was a citizen by adoption) and carried off the prize. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The trick here is to argue from the opponent's language, never from his insight. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• His calling is the acquisition of secrets and the holding possession of such power as they give him, with no sharer or opponent in it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Never have I risen to such a height, and never have I been so hard pressed by an opponent. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• If the visitor persists until Edison has seen both sides of the controversy, he is always willing to frankly admit that his own views may be unsound and that his opponent is right. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Yes, he replied, the opponent might have something to say. Plato. The Republic.
• His opponent was the son of his principal warder, and was so imprudent as to give the challenge to this barter of buffets. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The two measured each other for a moment, but Lily still saw her opponent through a blur of scorn that made all other considerations indistinct. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It was just after Corbett had won one of his big battles as a prize-fighter, and the dismay of his opponent was excusable. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He had returned with the prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Next, we shall ask our opponent how, in reference to any of the pursuits or arts of civic life, the nature of a woman differs from that of a man? Plato. The Republic.
• In controversy we do not try to find our opponent's meaning: we examine his vocabulary. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They were felled not by a number of fighting men, but by a single opponent. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• By the modern philosophic empiricist and by his opponent, experience has been looked upon just as a way of knowing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• His opponents tried to badger him in every way they could, and ridicule even his modest statements. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• His Democratic opponents, especially Woodrow Wilson, are, as I write, in the midst of the Presidential campaign of 1912, trying to focus attention on the tariff. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They will use friendly correction, but will not enslave or destroy their opponents; they will be correctors, not enemies? Plato. The Republic.
• The aspect of the two opponents was now singular. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Socrates praises his frankness, and assumes the attitude of one whose only wish is to understand the meaning of his opponents. Plato. The Republic.
• Then let us put a speech into the mouths of our opponents. Plato. The Republic.
• He was thus able to ruin public opponents through private scandals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• How often in a political campaign does a candidate suggest that behind the platforms and speeches of his opponents there might be some new and valuable understanding of the country's need? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He was to preach the doctrines, and I was to confound all opponents. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• What damage have your opponents sustained? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He went down to the Houses of Parliament to arrest five of his most active opponents. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Here a Lancashire man named Highs, who had constructed a double jenny to work fifty-six spindles in 1770, was declared by Arkwright’s opponents to be the real inventor. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But the Prophet himself went unscathed because he was well connected, and his opponents did not want to begin a blood feud. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My blade was swinging with the rapidity of lightning as I sought to parry the thrusts and cuts of my opponents. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• A tendency existed at the time to assume that electricity was altogether safe, while its opponents, predicating their attacks on arc-lighting casualties, insisted it was most dangerous. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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