Opposing

Examples

• He had the faith of the one, the doubt of the other, and, drawn strongly either way by these opposing forces, paused irresolutely between the two. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• At any rate he sickened, and after opposing to the malady a taciturn resistance for a day or two, was obliged to keep his chamber. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He was in that mood in which I thought it best not to increase his determination (if anything could increase it) by opposing him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I left off opposing her favourite whim on that account, because some of the sympathy was sure, in course of time, to fall to my share. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It is they who turn opposing interests into a class war. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She knew the strength of the opposing impulses-she could feel the countless hands of habit dragging her back into some fresh compromise with fate. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• They buffet with opposing waves, to gain the bloody shore, not to recede from it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But they are all the enemy to whose force we are opposing force. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• For a moment I resolved to stop, and, opposing the back of the cabriolet to the force of the tempest, to expect morning as well as I might. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Mr. Yorke, instead of opposing, aided and abetted him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The testimony having been examined, it is our privilege to state and to support the opposing hypothesis. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I owe it to you and yours, to prevent you from opposing, in the warmth of your generous nature, this great obstacle to your progress in the world. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I breasted the surges, and flung them from me, as I would the opposing front and sharpened claws of a lion about to enfang my bosom. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It seemed that she had no more identified herself with him than if they had been creatures of different species and opposing interests. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But Dorothea is quite determined--it is no use opposing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Sir Leicester sits down in an easy-chair, opposing his repose and that of Chesney Wold to the restless flights of ironmasters. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Like unexceptionable Society, the opposing rows of houses in Harley Street were very grim with one another. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• She hesitated a moment before answering, opposing his persistence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The flow of current will cause two equal opposing actions to be set up in the bar; one will exactly offset the other, and no magnetic effect will be produced. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• His nature was such, she said, that he would bring me back into the city dead or alive should I persist in opposing him; preferably dead, she added. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• A rich man feels the felicity of his condition better by opposing it to that of a beggar. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Not being so magnanimous as Mr Boffin, I feel his injuries more than he does himself, and feel more capable of opposing his injurers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She was resolved not to be convinced, as long as she could doubt, and yet had no authority for opposing Harriet's confidence. Jane Austen. Emma.

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