19 Words to use with contre

L'Europe contre les patries.

So tonight she took her seat against the wall and watched while the first three contre-danses went by without bringing her a partner.

Within the last twelve months nearly all the individuals who compose it have treated Marat with contempt; and I perfectly remember even Danton, one of the members of the Committee of Salut Publique, accusing him of being a contre revolutionnaire.

Bleus contre verts.

Castellion contre Calvin; ou, Conscience contre violence.

DIDELOT, ROGER FRANCIS. Samson Clairval contre service secret, by Francis Didelot.

" As a final example I will cite a passage from M. Taine:"De la encore cette insolence contre les inferieurs, et ce mepris verse d'etage en etage depuis le premier jusqu'au dernier.

"Pays, Patrie," says Victor Hugo, in words which perhaps will serve to describe many a future passage in French history, "ces deux mots résument toute la guerre de Vendée; querelle de l'idée locale centre l'idée universelle; paysans contre patriotes" (ii. 22).

""Raphael," says a little French work on painting, in my possession, speaking of unity of time, "A peché contre cette regle, dans son tableau d'Heliodore, ou il fait intervenir le Pape Jules 2 dans le Temple de Jerusalem porte sur les epaules, des Gonfalonniers."

And they paid him for it!" I told the worthy patriarch that I hoped he would be able to sing a contre-sol even better paid for; and I went up the hill to the right of the Koura, so as to have a view of the whole town.

Owing to several contre-tems of this nature, by the time they reached the fishing-ground the Captain began to entertain a feeling for the commodore, that ill comported with the deference due to his titular rank.

One was always sure of meeting desirable and well-assorted people here, and a contre-temps was impossible.

Contre partie pour les autres

mais il n'est pas nécessaire qu'ils le croient, je vous sais bon gré de votre attachement et de votre fidélité: niais dissimulez- en une partie, c'est peut-être ce qui les indispose contre vous.

Adv. unwillingly &c adj.; grudgingly, with a heavy heart; with a bad, with an ill grace; against one's wishes, against one's will, against the grain, sore against one's wishes, sore against one's will, sore against one's grain; invita Minerva [Lat.]; a contre caeur [Fr.]; malgre soi

LIGUE, f., union, confédération; confédération du parti catholique, fondée par le due de Guise, en 1576, dans le but apparent de défendre la religion contre les calvinistes, mais en réalité pour renverser Henri III.

" "And why?" "There lived the famous tenor Satar, who sang the contre-fa from his chest.

Ne vous amusez pas à chanter en vous mesme, si vous ne vous rencontrez si fort à l'écart qu'aucun autre ne vous puisse entendre, non plus qu'à contre-faire le son du tambour par l'agitation des pieds ou des mains.

[Fr.]; fin contre fin [Fr.]; something is rotten in the state of Denmark [Hamlet].

19 Words to use with  contre