The Giant, who was a good seven-footer, working up to seven and a half feet, as an engineer might say, with the help of his boots and helmet, was the exact opposite of the Dwarf in disposition.

The word simple comes from the Latin simplex, to indicate the least solemn form of office and it is the direct opposite in meaning to the term "double."

too late, in a second partner, an extreme opposite?

The Spirit wants to enjoy the reality of its own Lifenot merely to vegetate, but to enjoy givingand therefore by Self-contemplation it projects a polar opposite, or complementary, calculated to give rise to the particular sort of relation out of which the enjoyment of a certain mode of self-consciousness will necessarily spring.

It is for this reason that I lay so much stress on the combination of two apparent opposites in the Universal Mind, the union of intelligence with impersonality.

[Sidenote: Dooes] 'Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes Betweene the passe, and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites.

Neither of these can exist, neither can be properly conceived of, apart from its correlative opposite.

His means are as admirable as his ends; every subordinate invention, by which he helps himself to connect some irreconcilable opposites, is a poem too.

Again, as reciprocal opposites, our two principles should be of equal dignity and value.

Her neighbour opposite was equally fond of snuff, and was usually to be heard lamenting how she had r'ared a fine fam'ly

The same perpetual opposites must concur to produce the proper form and uses of the State,though they here appear in a much more elevated form.

Excluding, then, such an apparently plausible, but really fallacious inversion of the Pantheistic view of the Universe, I repeat that the latter is the precise opposite of Atheism.

Infinite and Finite, Same and Diverse, Eternal and Temporary, Universal and Special,here they are, purest opposites, yet mutual, reciprocal, necessary to each other; and he is a narrow man who cannot stand in open relations with both terms, reconciling in the depths of his life, though he can never explain, the mystery of their friendship.

" In a ragged old barn opposite, a hen had stolen her nest and brought out seventeen vigorous chicks.

On the fulgent spectacle, That neither passed away nor changed, I gazed Enrapt; but brightest things are wont to draw Sad opposites out of the inner heart, As even their pensive influence drew from mine.

Farther on they came to another, a league and a half from the land, and there being a good road-stead opposite, Grijalva brought the ships to anchor, and went on shore in his boat at a place where some smoke was seen.

Having made this general statement, we proceed to say that there are two chief ways in which these universal opposites enter into reciprocation.

Haw-Haw Langley took the place which Pale Annie had left vacant opposite Mac Strann.

Eastward was built a gate of marble white; The like adorn'd the western opposite.

This writer was the absolute opposite of his religious confederates.

Stand you all in two parallel lines from the centre tepee of the bereaved family to the wigwam opposite in the great outer ring.

Then this self-recognition would lead to the conception of still more specific activity having its appropriate polar opposite, or material correspondence, in the condensation of the nebula into a solar system.

"I didn't think you noticed it," he said, his voice lowered instinctively because of the temptation to tell the truth, and his glance wandering absently over to the corral opposite, where Surry stood waiting placidly until his master should have need of him.

It appears most dangerous opposite to Sigtuna, Sweden's old royal city: the lake is broad here; the waves rise as if they were the waters of the ocean; the boats rockit is fearful to look at!

His Nordland origin is in itself significant; it means an environment of month-long nights and concentrated summers, in which all feelings are intensified, and love and dread and gratitude and longing are nearer and deeper than in milder and more temperate regions, where elemental opposites are, as it were, reciprocally diluted.