contrarious

Example Sentences

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I answer, such a Will could not create, could not be God, for it involves the false and contrarious.

From Miracles of Our Lord by MacDonald, George

O place and greatness, millions of false eyes Are stuck upon thee! volumes of report Run with these false, and most contrarious quest Upon thy doings!

From Measure for Measure by Shakespeare, William

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

From Miss Gibbie Gault by Bosher, Kate Langley

And therefore they make images like to those things that they have belief in, for to behold them and worship them first at morning, or they meet any contrarious things. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

The Gaelic man had no sooner entered the Kirk o' the General Assembly," they said, "than the maister of the Assembly rose, and, speaking very rough, said, 'Ye contrarious rascal, what tak's you here?

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh