contrariety
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Somehow, the contrariety of the proprieties, as she translated them, bewildered and baffled him.
From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles
She did know the longing, the discontent, the universal contradiction and contrariety which is involved in that condition of unfulfilment to which so many grey and undeveloped lives are condemned.
From Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations by Alexander, Mrs.
What had been done to him, those acquainted with the art of renovation could alone tell; but here was a contrariety without going far to find it.
From Geoffery Gambado A Simple Remedy for Hypochondriacism and Melancholy Splenetic Humours by Bunbury, William Henry
At any other time, moved by the sheer and wanton contrariety of her disposition, Constance would have declined to profit by this concession—would have delighted to stand by and deftly add fuel to the fire.
From Fordham's Feud by Mitford, Bertram
He had an inexhaustible fund of good humour, and was not even angry when Pete, in sheer contrariety, told him the reason for his enticement to the still.
From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles
With Martin, who has just been released after serving a prison term, Ayme takes a dreamlike but invigorating stroll through the contrarieties of Western society.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he was much more; as Louis Kronenberger points out in his introduction to this handy Portable, Boswell was both a kind of genius and "a tissue of contrarieties."
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Sharpe shook his head as if to clear it of contrarieties.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
It might be thought that in a household so full of contrarieties as Tubbermore, any new plan of pleasure would have met but a meagre success.
From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
And the theories of Charlemagne and Napoleon, though irreconcileably antagonistic, in their conception, would, were either fully developed, become identical in their result, notwithstanding their contrarieties.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
