Contrasts

Examples

• The multiplicity of its appeals--the perpetual surprise of its contrasts and resemblances! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• A contrast indeed to this gay scene of worldly pleasure--but then I have always lived on contrasts! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Her visit to the Girls' Club had first brought her in contact with the dramatic contrasts of life. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• With some excess of patriotic pride, he contrasts these with what he calls the seven wonders of American invention. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He closes his picture with a rollicking burst of humor which contrasts finely with the grief of the mother and her children. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Her lord being cherubic, she was necessarily majestic, according to the principle which matrimonially unites contrasts. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I made you talk: ere long I found you full of strange contrasts. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• This conception contrasts sharply with other ideas which have influenced practice. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was a wild masquerade of all imaginable costumes--every struggling throng in every street was a dissolving view of stunning contrasts. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Let me ever remember that I am her younger sister, and ever spare her painful contrasts, which could not but wound her sharply. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• May is a month of great contrasts in temperature, the corporal said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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