contrarious
Example Sentences
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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 Sir Thomas Malory
Part of his wish to wash his hands of life arose from his perception of its contrarious inconsistencies—of Nature's jaunty readiness to support unorthodox social principles.
From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Say worthie Doctours & Clerkes curious, What moneth you of bookes to have such number, Since diuers doctrines through way contrarious, Doth man's minde distract and sore encomber.
From Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by Frederick Somner Merryweather
“I’ve had a weary fortnight on’t, with Master that contrarious, I couldn’t do nought to suit him, and Mistress Hall a-coming day by day to serve him wi’ vinegar and pepper.
From All's Well Alice's Victory by M. Lewin
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 George MacDonald
