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

It was the son who sang the “Death of Nelson” under such contrarious circumstances.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

So when they were in the sea a contrarious wind blew them on the coasts of North Wales, nigh the Castle Perilous.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

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

The other kind is at best a permanent 'friendship recognised by the police':—a tacit confession of failure which this high-hearted, if contrarious couple were by no means minded to arrive at, now or ever.

From The Great Amulet by Diver, Maud