Opposed

Examples

• Gerty Farish had opposed the plan with all the energy of her somewhat inarticulate nature. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I represented that I knew him (as I did and do) to be strenuously opposed to it, both in opinion and action. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• These are not irrecon cilably opposed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Say, then, is not pleasure opposed to pain? Plato. The Republic.
• He opposed the existing state of affairs on the ground that it formed neither the citizen nor the man. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He was so strong, so sustaining, and he could not be opposed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It was remarkable; but, the taste of Saint Antoine seemed to be decidedly opposed to a rose on the head-dress of Madame Defarge. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• But, whatever may be their own wishes, it is very unlikely they should have opposed their brother's. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• In every victory he displayed humanity to the conquered, and decisively opposed any exhibition of cruelty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You, who opposed to both, when your hair was grey, the qualities which made both when you gave him birth! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He opposed the expedition. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I desired to draw her from this spot; but she opposed my wish. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They are opposed to the Countess's idea; but she is firm, and insists on a legal opinion. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Insurmountable heaps sometimes opposed themselves; the still burning fires scorched me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But that would not have been opposed to ordinary prescriptions, even of first-rate men. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He ought to have opposed the first attempt on their side to make him slight his father. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The Quakers, whose principles are opposed to fighting, even in their own defence, were most active upon this occasion. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Feeling too and thought are not really opposed; for he who thinks must feel before he can execute. Plato. The Republic.
• These two points of view are really opposed, and the opposition is only veiled by the genius of Plato. Plato. The Republic.
• They are opposed to routine which marks an arrest of growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Now the introduction of reaping and mowing machines, and other improved agricultural machinery, is not opposed. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The things which are seen are opposed in Scripture to the things which are unseen--they are equally opposed in Plato to universals and ideas. Plato. The Republic.
• I am opposed to Bulstrode in many ways. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A true aim is thus opposed at every point to an aim which is imposed upon a process of action from without. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was so opposed to your interests. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Without any aid--even opposed or disapproved by you--I believe I should have acted precisely as I now intend to act, but in another spirit. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It would be hard to find a subject in the curriculum within which there are not found evil results of a compromise between the two opposed ideals. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Emma said it would be awkward; Mrs. Weston was in distress about the supper; and Mr. Woodhouse opposed it earnestly, on the score of health. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Thus taken, the influence of heredity is opposed to that of the environment, and the efficacy of the latter belittled. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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