contrarious

Example Sentences

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I wonder what makes you such a contrarious person, Gibbie Gault?

From Miss Gibbie Gault by Bosher, Kate Langley

Alas! what more contrarious deed, What greater miracle of wrong than this, That man should know his good and take it not?

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert

And what greater absurditie can there bee, then to say that one cure shall serue for diuers, nay, contrarious sortes of diseases?

From A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco by Goldsmid, Edmund

Volumes of report Run with these false and most contrarious quests Upon thy doings!

From John Lothrop Motley, A Memoir — Complete by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

But the learningknight would not hear say nay nor do her mandement ne have him in aught contrarious to his list and he said how it was a marvellous castle.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James