obverse

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Obverse Books' 'Team Up' of Paul Magrs and George Mann Like wedges, blue eyeshadow and harem pants, the tête-bêche is making one of its periodic returns to favour.

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2011

Obverse, a portrait of the naturalist, very faithful and boldly executed, yet with the utmost delicacy of finish.

From Notes and Queries, Number 234, April 22, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

This method, followed also in the case of the Yale tablet, seems preferable to Langdon’s breaking up of the text into Obverse and Reverse, with a separate enumeration for each of the six columns.

From An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic by Jastrow, Morris

"Obverse, or reverse, I can make nothing out of it."

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman

Most authorities would give as the Formal Obverse of this, "No men are infallible".

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William